[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bull Snipe.

[colorado tanker]

I'm not finding a good clip of it so there may be copyright issues, but if you get a chance watch Ruggles of Red Gap, a mostly forgotten screwball western comedy from the 1930's. Charles Laughton portrays an English butler an American won in a card game and took with him to the western frontier.

There is a scene in a saloon where none of the Americans can remember what it was Lincoln said. Ruggles, the English butler, transfixes the Americans by reciting the Gettysburg Address from memory.

The movie plays a lot with themes of class and place in society versus making one's way in a new land where birth and class don't matter.

In real life Laughton fell in love with America and became a citizen.