“America…” Ruggles says, his eyes engorging, “the land of slavery.” Uttered unflatteringly by an indentured servant who’s just been lost on a gamble, this clumsy line is less ironic than its apparent intention; it’s as if Ruggles objects to slave labor as an essentially bad-mannered custom. This quasi-poor taste exposes how little the director or highly cultured star knew of Jim Crow.
— Joseph Jon Lanthier (Slant Magazine)
Synopsis: In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.