Ruggles of Red Gap

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Ruggles of Red Gap

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Directed by Leo McCarey
Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Written by Walter DeLeon
Humphrey Pearson
Harlan Thompson
Harry Leon Wilson (novel)
Starring Charles Laughton
Mary Boland
Charles Ruggles
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Egbert Van Alstyne
Cinematography Alfred Gilks
Editing by Edward Dmytryk
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) February 19, 1935
Running time 90 min.
Language English
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Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson [1], adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year [2], and made into a movie several times [3], most famously in 1935.

In the comedy Western film Lord Burnstead (Roland Young) loses his butler Ruggles (Charles Laughton) playing poker. The crude nouveau riche Egbert and Effie Floud (Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland) bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, a Western town. When the butler is mistaken for a wealthy Englishman, he becomes a small-town celebrity. As Ruggles attempts to adjust to this rough new community, he learns to have his own life on his own terms and creates a fulfilling independence as a result.

Also in the film are Leila Hyams, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts.

The film was written by Walter DeLeon, Humphrey Pearson and Harlan Thompson, and was directed by Leo McCarey.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

[edit] Trivia

  • The novel contains perhaps the earliest specific reference to Levi brand jeans, clearly describing to the trademark leather patch, or "placard" on the back waistband, illustrating "two teams of stout horses attempting to wrench it in twain".

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