What is Ruggles of Red Gap / Cluny Brown about?

RUGGLES OF RED GAP, 1935, Universal, 92 min. Dir. Leo McCarey. Another McCarey classic stars Charles Laughton as a veddy proper English valet who’s won in a poker game by a man from the Wild West (Charlie Ruggles). And thus the clash of cultures commences. With Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams and many others. And remember: always bring the pot to the kettle! Also showing at The Aero, December 28. CLUNY BROWN, 1946, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s last complete film is one of his funniest. Jennifer Jones is Cluny Brown, a female plumber who winds up working as a maid on an English estate; in other words, it’s RUGGLES in reverse. Charles Boyer is delightful as a penniless Czech intellectual smitten with Cluny and befriended by rich, naive Peter Lawford. With Helen Walker, the unparalleled C. Aubrey Smith and Una O’Connor, and not one but two Reginalds (Owen and Gardiner).

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What is Ruggles of Red Gap / Cluny Brown about?: RUGGLES OF RED GAP, 1935, Universal, 92 min. Dir. Leo McCarey. Another McCarey classic stars Charles Laughton as a veddy proper English valet who’s won in a poker game by a man from the Wild West (Charlie Ruggles). And thus the clash of cultures commences. With Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams and many others. And remember: always bring the pot to the kettle! Also showing at The Aero, December 28.

CLUNY BROWN, 1946, 20th Century Fox, 100 min. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s last complete film is one of his funniest. Jennifer Jones is Cluny Brown, a female plumber who winds up working as a maid on an English estate; in other words, it’s RUGGLES in reverse. Charles Boyer is delightful as a penniless Czech intellectual smitten with Cluny and befriended by rich, naive Peter Lawford. With Helen Walker, the unparalleled C. Aubrey Smith and Una O’Connor, and not one but two Reginalds (Owen and Gardiner).