2012
Approved
Paramount Pictures
1 h 30 m

2012
Approved
Paramount Pictures
1 h 30 m

Summary A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictiti...

Directed By: Leo McCarey

Written By: Harry Leon Wilson, Walter DeLeon, Harlan Thompson, Humphrey Pearson

2012
Approved
Paramount Pictures
1 h 30 m

2012
Approved
Paramount Pictures
1 h 30 m

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Name: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Western
Released: 2012-04-06
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Rating: 0
Cast: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young

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Directed By: Leo McCarey

Written By: Harry Leon Wilson, Walter DeLeon, Harlan Thompson, Humphrey Pearson

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Village Voice

Apr 3, 2012

Laughton, of course, is elegant rotundity in motion, a naughty, moonfaced cherub in his drunk scene, later sweetly surprised when finding himself elevated into a man by the Gettysburg Address, a recitation of which is the film's palpitating heart.

By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW

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Time Out

Apr 3, 2012

Shockingly modern and the most politically enlightened (and enlightening) comedy of the 1930s, Leo McCarey's winning quasi-Western is a model of Hollywood broad strokes coalescing into a sophisticated whole.

By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Paramount Pictures

Release Date Apr 6, 2012

Duration 1 h 30 m

Rating Approved

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Tagline Here they are right from the pages of Harry Leon Wilson's book! See Red Gap society take to Ruggles, the English valet, and see Ruggles take Red Gap! (Print Ad-Daily Times, ((Rochester, Penna.)) 21 May 1935)

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Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

National Board of Review, USA

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

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Charles Laughton

Ruggles

Mary Boland

Effie Floud

Charles Ruggles

Egbert Floud

Zasu Pitts

Prunella Judson

Roland Young

George--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

Ernie Adams

Dishwasher

Rafael Alcayde

Clothing Salesman

Augusta Anderson

Mrs. Wallaby

Alyce Ardell

Lisette - French Maid

Harry Bernard

Harry - Bartender #2

Harry Bowen

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George Burton

Doc Squires

Ricardo Lord Cezon

Little Boy

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