Ruggles of Red Gap d.w. griffith Animals talk -- and crack

Animals talk -- and crack jokes -- in these hilarious shorts combining live-action and animation from the mind of Tex Avery and other Looney Tunes cartoonists

While drowning his sorrows

and vicious thugs led by a rival gang leader

They stop evildoers in all forms

Ruggles of Red Gap d.w. griffith Animals talk -- and crackNominated for a Best Picture Academy Award(r), Ruggles of Red Gap stars Charles Laughton as a stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, who is traded in a poker game from an English Duke (Roland Young) to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles). Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them