Production Year: 1974 - Comedy - Director: Ronnie Baxter, Vernon Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Frances De La Tour, Don Warrington more
Eric Chappell's wildly popular and hilarious comedy RISING DAMP stars Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Rigsby, the mean, bigoted, and boastful landlord of a decrepit boarding house. It... more
success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.Some aspects ofRising Damphave not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs
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A review by Maximus-Qualitus on Rising Damp - The Best Of (DVD) October 22nd, 2008
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Outstanding
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Standard
How does it compare to similar films?
Outstanding
Advantages:
Very Funny
Disadvantages:
None
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
The Very Best of Rising Damp ====================
~Introduction~
Some points of interest before we start. First broadcast in 1974 Rising Damp was an instant success. Not just because of the wonderful casting or the writing but because of the chemistry between all the cast members.
Cast and Crew =========
~Eric Chappell~ originally working for the gas board, Eric quit his job and took to writing. His first play was 'The Banana Box'. This was a moderate success and coincidentally starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour and Don Warrington. Points of interest, in the banana box the landlord was actually called Rooksby. Philip was already a tenant with his own flat. Eric went on write Rising Damp but after a complaint from an actual landlord called Rooksby he changed the name to Rigsby.
RIGSBY - Leonard Rossiter. Miserly landlord who was married during the war and once said," It was a blunder on the scale of Anzio"
Miss JONES - Frances de la Tour. Frustrated spinster who is a sufferer of headaches resulting in her having to wear 'blue glasses'.
PHILIP - Don Warrington. 'Son of a Chief' allegedly. Married with 10 wives, allegedly. The 2 marks on his cheek where part of an initiation ceremony on his 14th birthday. 1 for becoming a man and the other for his first sexual experience, or so he claimed.
ALAN - Richard Beckinsale. Scruffy, desperate, long haired student. Because he is always eating, Rigsby believes he has a tape worm. Alan sadly died of a heart attack in 1979. Aged only 28.
~The DVD~ Contains the following episodes' Charisma A Perfect Gentleman For The Man Who Has Everything Stage Struck Come On In The Water's Lovely
Lets start: ======== ~Charisma~ Getting nowhere fast with 'wooing' Miss Jones Rigsby turns to Philip to find out what he would do back in his country. Rigsby ends up burns some 'Love Wood' outside Miss Jones's door. It actually came of the back of the wardrobe!
~A Perfect Gentleman~ Rigsby gets ideas above his abilities when Seymour the conman and scrounger bamboozle Rigsby into buying shares in oil in the Pennines.
~For The Man Who Has Everything~ Christmas Special Not much really to explain here, its Rigsby playing 'Scrooge'.
~Stage Struck~ Hilary is a new tenant who happen s to be a bit effeminate. Rigsby takes an instant dislike to him, so the boys wind him up to the point where Hilary makes a pass at Rigsby.
~Come On In The Water's Lovely~ The final episode where Finally Rigsby proposes to Ruth but even that doesn't go according to plan
~Opinions~ You could put nearly every episode on this DVD and call it 'the best' they where all fairly funny. Not when Alan left but even then they where Ok. Where watching, worth catching on TV for free though.
Classification: U Run Time: 120 minutes ASIN: B00004YVDG Amazon Price: £3.74
Eric Chappell's wildly popular and hilarious comedy RISING DAMP stars Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Rigsby, the mean, bigoted, and boastful landlord of a decrepit boarding house. It charts Rigsby's constant romantic failure with Miss Jones (Frances De La Tour) and barely-disguised disgust for his 'lesser' tenants, students Alan and Philip. The show's four-year run earned it a huge following, even though the show only produced 28 episodes. This is a compilation of some of the best and includes Charisma, A Perfect Gentleman, For the Man Who Has Everything, Stage Struck, and Come on In, the Water's Lovely.
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: None
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Sound: Mono
Dubbing Sound: Mono English
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