Thursday 31 May 2012

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026955/
Comedy, Romance
Leo McCarey
Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles, Dell Henderson, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, James Burke, Roland Young, Mary Boland, Leila Hyams, Maude Eburne, Leota Lorraine, Clarence Wilson
8 March 1935 (USA)
While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.

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