Ruggles of Red Gap 4/20/09
Posted: April 19th, 2009, 2:42 pm
A fish out of water comedy features a veddy English butler among the nouveau riche of the American West in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), which may be one of the most likable movies ever. It is premiering on TCM on Monday, 4/20/09 at 9:15PM ET/6:15PM PT. Charles Laughton gives a deftly restrained and good performance in this movie, and he is often quite funny as well as touching when he recites a certain passage that surprisingly few inhabitants of Red Gap know.
Laughton has a great deal of fine competition for laughs from the splendid cast, especially from Charlie Ruggles (who was probably never better), Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts and Roland Young, who are really delightful as well. When they talk about Leo McCarey as a gifted comic director, this movie is the one they should cite as one of his master works. Hope that you'll enjoy it and even if you don't, share an opinion, won't you?
Zasu Pitts, Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles and Maude Eburne mull over things in Ruggles of Red Gap.
A TCM article by Frank Arnold about the film may be seen here. Another interesting piece touching on the significance of the movie, emphasizing the generosity of spirit within such movies, and looking at them in a context of American history is found here on the Bright Lights After Dark blog .
Laughton has a great deal of fine competition for laughs from the splendid cast, especially from Charlie Ruggles (who was probably never better), Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts and Roland Young, who are really delightful as well. When they talk about Leo McCarey as a gifted comic director, this movie is the one they should cite as one of his master works. Hope that you'll enjoy it and even if you don't, share an opinion, won't you?
Zasu Pitts, Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles and Maude Eburne mull over things in Ruggles of Red Gap.
A TCM article by Frank Arnold about the film may be seen here. Another interesting piece touching on the significance of the movie, emphasizing the generosity of spirit within such movies, and looking at them in a context of American history is found here on the Bright Lights After Dark blog .