[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.

[SunkenCiv]

He was THE British actor, before Olivier came (ahem) along. Sounds like the show within a show in Seinfeld, no insurance, sentenced to be his butler. ;^)

Ruggles Of Red Gap 1935 HD

[SunkenCiv]

I'm going to try it again when I can just have it running in another room and half-listen to it. I couldn't get through the first five minutes of it.