Release Date: 1935-03-08
Overview: In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Rating: 7.1 / 10
Charles Laughton
as Marmaduke Ruggles
Mary Boland
as Effie Floud
Charles Ruggles
as Egbert Floud
Zasu Pitts
as Mrs. Judson
Roland Young
as Earl of Burnstead
Harry Leon Wilson - Novel
Harlan Thompson - Screenplay
Walter DeLeon - Screenplay
Leo McCarey - Director
Alfred Gilks - Director of Photography
Charles Laughton is superb as a butler who is lost in a poker game by his English aristocrat employer and so has to relocate to "Red Gap" to work for a couple nouveau riche Americans at the start of t...