Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap

Infobox Film | name = Ruggles of Red Gap


caption = Film poster
director = Leo McCarey
producer = Arthur Hornblow Jr.
writer = Walter DeLeon
Humphrey Pearson
Harlan Thompson
Harry Leon Wilson (novel)
starring = Charles Laughton
Mary Boland
Charles Ruggles
ZaSu Pitts
music = Heinz Roemheld
Egbert Van Alstyne
cinematography = Alfred Gilks
editing = Edward Dmytryk
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = February 19, 1935
runtime = 90 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0026955

"Ruggles of Red Gap" is a 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson [ [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7rgrg10.txt The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ruggles of Red Gap, by Harry Leon Wilson] ] , adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year [cite web |url = http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=8250 |title = Internet Broadway Database: Ruggles of Red Gap Production Credits |accessdate = 2008-06-07] , and made into a movie several times [cite web |url = http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=ruggles+of+red+gap |title = IMDb Title Search |accessdate = 2008-06-07] , most famously in 1935.

In the comedy Western film directed by Leo McCarey, Lord Burnstead (Roland Young) gambles away his eminently correct English butler, Ruggles (Charles Laughton). Ruggles' new 'owners', crude nouveau riche Americans Egbert and Effie Floud (Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland), bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, a remote 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 live life on his own terms, achieving a fulfilling independence as a result.

The film's supporting cast includes ZaSu Pitts, Leila Hyams, and Roland Young, and the screenplay was written by Walter DeLeon, Humphrey Pearson and Harlan Thompson. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The novel contains perhaps the earliest specific reference to Levi brand jeans, clearly describing the trademark leather patch, or "placard" on the back waistband, illustrating "two teams of stout horses attempting to wrench it in twain." In the novel, Red Gap is located near Spokane, Washington. Ruggles predates P.G. Wodehouse's more famous butler-hero, Jeeves.

Cast

* Charles Laughton ... Marmaduke Ruggles
* Mary Boland ... Effie Floud
* Charles Ruggles ... Egbert Floud (billed as Charlie Ruggles)
* ZaSu Pitts ... Prunella Judson
* Roland Young ... George Vane Bassingwell, the Earl of Burnstead
* Leila Hyams ... Nell Kenner
* Maude Eburne ... 'Ma' Pettingill
* Lucien Littlefield ... Charles Belknap-Jackson
* Leota Lorraine ... Mrs. Charles Belknap-Jackson
* James Burke ... Jeff Tuttle
* Dell Henderson ... Sam, bartender (as Del Henderson)
* Clarence Wilson ... Jake Henshaw, reporter

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