Ruggles of Red Gap

“SH-H-H-H! TONIGHT'S YOUR NIGHT TO HOWL! And howl you will at this funniest of all comedies...”

7.0(79)19351h 30m

Comedy

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

Director

Leo McCarey

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Cast

Charles Laughton

Marmaduke Ruggles

Mary Boland

Effie Floud

Charles Ruggles

Egbert Floud

Zasu Pitts

Mrs. Judson

Roland Young

Earl of Burnstead

Leila Hyams

Nell Kenner

Maude Eburne

'Ma' Pettingill

Lucien Littlefield

Charles Belknap-Jackson

Leota Lorraine

Mrs. Belknap-Jackson

James Burke

Jeff Tuttle

Dell Henderson

Sam

Clarence Wilson

Jake Henshaw

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

Charles Laughton is superb as a butler who is lost in a poker game by his English aristocrat employer and so has to relocate to "Red Gap" to work for a couple nouveau riche Americans at the start of the 1900s. Initially a fish out of water in his new home with his brash, socially aspiring, but unsophisticated new American employers he quickly turns this all to his advantage and what ensues is a de...