- 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 =
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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 byLeo McCarey , Lord Burnstead (Roland Young ) gambles away his eminently correct English butler, Ruggles (Charles Laughton ). Ruggles' new 'owners', crudenouveau riche Americans Egbert and Effie Floud (Charlie Ruggles andMary 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 , andRoland Young , and the screenplay was written byWalter DeLeon ,Humphrey Pearson andHarlan Thompson . The movie was nominated for theAcademy 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
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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, reporterReferences
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