SummaryA 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 fictitious stori... Read More
Directed By:Leo McCarey
Written By:Harry Leon Wilson, Walter DeLeon, Harlan Thompson, Humphrey Pearson
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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Apr 3, 2012
100
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.
Apr 3, 2012
100
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.
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Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
Release Date:Apr 6, 2012
Duration:1 h 30 m
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)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Photoplay Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
