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Rising Damp - The Movie [DVD] [1974]

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Leonard Rossiter (Actor), Don Warrington (Actor), Vernon Lawrence (Director, Producer) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Leonard Rossiter, Don Warrington, Frances de la Tour, Gabrielle Rose, Derek Newark
  • Directors: Vernon Lawrence
  • Producers: Vernon Lawrence
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV Studios Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Feb. 2003
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000085ROB
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,421 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Big screen spin-off of ITV's popular Seventies sitcom. Grasping landlord Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter) spends most of his time lusting after his favourite tenant, Miss Jones (Frances de la Tour). Unfortunately for Rigsby, she only has eyes for athletic son of a tribal chief Philip (Don Warrington). He, in turn, has no time for affairs of the heart, but is nevertheless amused by his new room-mate Alan's (Christopher Strauli) attempts to lose his virginity. Into this not always happy household comes the apparently sophisticated Seymour (Denholm Elliott) - but is he all he seems?

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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring 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 of Rising Damp have 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsAt Last...
By BurtKwok on 8 Aug. 2001
Format: DVD
...ITV's finest comedy half-hour is available on DVD - and cheaper than the recently released VHS compilations!! Sound, of course, is mono and is crystal clear. The picture is very, very sharp and really lets you see in detail the threadbare carpets and worn-out wallpaper. You can almost see the tenants breath in their freezing bedsits. Rigsby, a Fagin with a rent-book type of character, owns a completely run-down boarding house and lets rooms to Alan Moore - a naive medical student, Philip Smith - a cultured, black student and Ruth Jones - a lonely wall-flower, desparate for love. The four characters play off each other beautifully and the comedy is as sharp now as it was 25 years ago. Don't think twice about buying this masterpiece. If enough of us buy the 1st series, the makers may release the rest!!!!
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5.0 out of 5 starsRossiter as Rigsby is at his brilliant best !
By A Customer on 27 May 2000
Format: VHS Tape
The third series of Rising Damp displays the finest characteristics of British Sitcom. Superbly written by Eric Chappel and brilliant performances by all the cast, make this a 'must have' for any devotee of classic comedy. The series begins as Rigsby returns from a holiday in Spain to find that Alan has let two rooms without his consent. His annoyance soon melts away when he discovers that one of the new tenants is no other than his beloved Miss Jones, who has returned following another unsuccesful romance. The other tenant is not such a nice surprise ! The series covers seven episodes That's my Boy, Stage Struck, Clunk Click, The Good Samaritans, Fawcett's Python, The Cocktail Hour and Suddenly at Home. Every episode offers a plot with misunderstandings, farce and hilarity together with the slickest timing and delivery you will ever see. It will appeal to all ages,I remember it from T.V., but my two children aged 12 and 15 simply love it, so much so that my son has put the remaining titles not in our collection on his birthday list! Treat yourself to the best laugh you'll ever have from Leonard Rossiter, one of the finest actors Britain has ever produced. He is still sadly missed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Brilliant Comedy
By Robert J. Mould on 4 Feb. 2004
Format: DVD
Ihave been a fan of Rising Damp since i was a child and watched every single epidode when they were originally broadcast.This dvd and the compete first series are excellent.Timeless classics you can watch again and again that cheer you up no end.Please, please please the powers that be release the complete 2nd seies as one of the best comedy episodes of all time is the episode things that go bump in the night.The sheer brilliance of rigsby, Alan and the whole cast are in this its just perfect comedy.
what a terrible loss to the world that Leanard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale are no longer with us.However they will be immortalised forever in this dvd and the others to come.Buy it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Great British Comedy
By Rob on 10 Dec. 2003
Format: DVD
Rising Damp is a perfect example of comic writing and one of the few shows produced by ITV capable of matching anything from the BBC. The characters are fantastic - Scrooge-like landlord Rigsby, long-haired medical student Alan, his flatmate, a sophisticated African named Philip and the lovelorn Miss Jones (who has a permanent crush on Philip much to Rigsby's irritation).
Eric Chappell's writing and the performances by all concerned make the show unforgettable. In episodes such as 'Boxing Match' Rigsby's non-stop boasting about his physical fitness leads him into a boxing match with super-fit Philip - with hillarious consequences. Then there's the one where Rigsby must go without food for 24hrs in order to win a bet. Each of the episodes is a comic gem that will have you doubling up with laughter. It's a smashing series.
All of which makes Amazon's editorial review by one David Stubbs all the more depressing to read. There seems to be a smug strand of opinion amongst reviewers like him that 70's tv shows are all guilty of terrible racism and I'd just like to say that Rising Damp is NOT racist. For any show to be considered racist it would have to endorse and approve the racism on display. Rising Damp does not do this. In fact, in every single episode Rigsby's ignorance is shown up for what it is and he ends up both the butt of the joke and the loser.
Not only does Mr Stubbs conveniently ignore this fact but he makes the laughable assertion that the 'racism' was 'a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour.' It's very brave of Mr Stubbs to patronise the integrity of the millions of people who enjoyed Rising Damp but frankly, one feels that they were far more aware of what Eric Chappell was up to, even if such insight proves beyond the ability of a PC drone like Mr Stubbs.
So don't worry about Amazon's editorial review. The comments of everybody else here are far more relevant and far more accurate. Rising Damp is well worth your money.
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5.0 out of 5 starsRising Damp, the ultimate movie
By A Customer on 2 April 2000
Format: VHS Tape
Having this classic video for more than ten years, I do like to take the chance to share my comments with other potential viewers.
In this feature film you can enjoy more than 90 minutes of the enormously popular TV series "Rising Damp". It is great to see the funny sketches from the seventies, packed together in a whole new movie.
The great and unfortunately late Leonard Rossiter (The rise and fall of Reginald Perrin) is the mean and miserable landlord Rupert Rigsby trying e-ve-ry-thing to win Miss Jones' heart (played beautifully by Frances de la Tour). You can enjoy his funny, desperate actions to do so, but unfortunately for Rigsby she has other ideas.
The true "Rising Damp" lover will see a collection of Rigsby's prejudices, pseudo-intelligence and of course his classic saying: "if it hadn't been for the war, who knows..."
The art student in this movie is played by Christopher Strauli instead of the late Richard Beckinsale, the black medical student, son of a chief, is played by Don Warrington as in the series. There is a special appearance by Denholm Elliott as a "true" gentleman, with breeding.
Everybody who did enjoy the series in the seventies should get this video, it was actualy Leonard Rossiter's last Rigsby appearance. I can assure you that all the fond memories are definitely coming back. - Glenn
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