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
