Ruggles of Red Gap
SH-H-H-H! TONIGHT'S YOUR NIGHT TO HOWL! And howl you will at this funniest of all comedies...
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DVD-R Details
- 4 X 3 ASPECT RATIO
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 1, 2014
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Universal
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts, Mary Boland & Leila Hyams | |
Directed by | Leo McCarey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Charles Laughton gives a splendid performance as a servant who quickly adopts the American Way of Life in Leo McCarey's savvy political comedy of 1935, a banner year for the Brit thespian in which he was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: B --
The film's main asset is the strong comical performance of Charles Laughton as the straitlaced and very proper English butler Marmaduke Ruggles.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Always charming without becoming gooey or cloying.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It's a bit much, but it works like magic. The cast could hardly be better
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New Yorker
Rating: 77/100 --
Alternately charming and deeply touching.
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Film and Felt
As Ruggles, the formal English valet set down in rough America, [Charles] Laughton turns the picture into comedy for what we proudly call the adult mind; without in the least spoiling the fun for the unthinking.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
Leo McCarey's masterpiece is a schizo, slack-jawed, preemptive rejoinder to Frank Capra's saintly sober "everyman."
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Slant Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award(r), Ruggles of Red Gap stars Charles Laughton as a stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, who is traded in a poker game from an English Duke (Roland Young) to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles). Ruggles new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as Colonel Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his recitation of Lincolns Gettysburg Address in the Silver Dollar Saloon. The dream of freedom leads him to open his own restaurant, where one of his first customers is the Duke who has come to reclaim his former servant. Supporting performances by ZaSu Pitts and Mary Boland add to the popularity of this charming, light-hearted classic.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 14,998
- UPC: 025192052156
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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