Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles and ZaSu Pitts, and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the bestselling 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted by Humphrey Pearson and with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Harlan Thompson. It is the story of a newly rich American couple from the West who win a British gentlemans gentleman in a poker game.
The climax of the film is Laughtons recitation of the Gettysburg Address in a saloon filled with rough Western characters who are held spellbound by the speech. Newly imbued with the spirit of democracy and selfdetermination, Ruggles becomes his own man, giving up his previous employment and opening a restaurant in Red Gap.Charles Laughton won the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Ruggles of Red Gap along with Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935. The National Board of Review named the film the ninth best of 1935. That year, Laughtons other two films, Les Misrables and Mutiny on the Bounty were sixth and eighth on the list, respectively. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and competed against two other Laughton films that were also nominated Mutiny on the Bounty which won the award and Les Misrables. ........
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