Ruggles of Red Gap | |
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Directed by | Leo McCarey |
Screenplay by | Walter DeLeon Harlan Thompson |
Story by | Humphrey Pearson |
Based on | Ruggles of Red Gap 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson[1][2] |
Produced by | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
Edited by | Edward Dmytryk[3] |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | March 8, 1935 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 American 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 best-selling 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted by Humphrey Pearson, with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Harlan Thompson.
The story concerns a British gentleman’s gentleman who discovers a “new birth of freedom” in a small Western American town in the early 20th century.[4][5][6]
Ruggles of Red Gap was “an immense commercial hit” and confirmed Leo McCarey’s stature as Paramount’s outstanding comedy filmmaker of his day.[7]