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Ruggles of Red Gap

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Ruggles of Red Gap
From left, Zasu Pitts, Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles and Maude Eburne in Ruggles of Red Gap
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Time Out says

Ruggles is a British butler (don't you know), Red Gap is the American shack of a town he comes to work in, having been won in a poker game. After initial incomprehension, he recites Lincoln's Gettysburg address and becomes the country's greatest fan. Sounds awful? Not so; this is the archetypal film they don't make any more, partly because comedy has now grown too raucous to favour the quiet drollery of players like Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland, partly because after the '30s even McCarey himself had problems in separating sentiment from sentimentality. Laughton, as always, enjoys himself enormously; we can only follow.
Written by GB

Release Details

  • Duration:91 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Leo McCarey
  • Screenwriter:Walter de Leon, Humphrey Pearson, Harlan Thompson
  • Cast:
    • Mary Boland
    • Charlie Ruggles
    • Leila Hyams
    • Charles Laughton
    • ZaSu Pitts
    • Roland Young
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