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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1055028" data-attributes="member: 3649">The Old West can accommodate all sorts of characters, so no reason not to have people from Victorian England show up (and visa versa - the Victorians were particularly enamoured of the Southern Gentlemen, also). And you can also do it for laughs, like in Shanghai Noon/Knights. 'Ruggles of Red Gap' is a classic comedy novel by Harry Leon Wilson, but could also be adapted to a more serious setting with just a few tweeks. The synopsis of the 1935 film version: An English gentleman loses his stuffy manservant, Ruggles (Charles Laughton), in a poker game with an unmannered cowboy and his wife. Ruggles accompanies his new employers to the tiny, wild town of Red Gap, Washington. Rich, rowdy Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles) introduces Ruggles as "Colonel" Ruggles, and the town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his recitation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the Silver Dollar Saloon. The dream of freedom leads him to open his own restaurant, where one of his first customers is the nobleman who has come to reclaim his former servant. There is also a re-make (Fancy Pants) with Lucy Ball and Bob Hope. (The above Ruggles is also a remake of two silent versions)</blockquote>