Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) on Netflix
A drunken poker game in Paris leaves Marmaduke Ruggles, valet to the Earl of Burnstead, in the hands of Egbert and Effie Floud. The Flouds take him to Red Gap, Washington.
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Plot summary
In 1908 Marmaduke Ruggles works as valet to the Earl of Burnstead. When the Earl and the newly rich Americans Egbert and Effie Floud drink together in Paris, a poker game leaves Ruggles belonging to the Flouds. Effie sees an English butler as a way to raise the family's social standing, while Egbert wants a friend to drink with. He takes Ruggles to a Parisian cafe to explain that in America everyone is equal, and a night of drinking with Jeff Tuttle follows. In Red Gap, Washington, Ruggles meets Effie's mother, Ma Pettingill, her disdainful relative Charles Belknap-Jackson, and Mrs. Judson, a widowed cook. He must decide whether Effie or Egbert is his master.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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- The film's Gettysburg Address sequence grew out of an event in McCarey's own life: at an alcohol-fueled social gathering the topic came up, everyone agreed as to its importance, but no one present could recite a word of the iconic document.
- The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and competed against two other Laughton films that were also nominated: Mutiny on the Bounty, which won the award, and Les Misérables.
