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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961810598
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: ACORN MEDIA
Manufacturer: ACORN MEDIA
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ACORN MEDIA
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 173 minutes
Sales Rank: 52655
Studio: ACORN MEDIA
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/10/2006 Run time: 173 minutes Rating: Nr
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First broadcast in 1974, the British 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 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, one suspects that it might have been a convenient cover for 1970s audiences to enjoy racist humor. 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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Having seen and loved Reginald Perrin (sadly unavailable in the u.s.) I was curious to check out this series and was quite delighted.. Leonard Rossiter's comic work is first rate and his role as Rigsby is a gas..
Also an interesting document of its times, 'rising damp' may not be politically correct but I really don't care.. it is a very fine and funny series.. and besides the show doesn't side with Rigsby's racism so much as laugh at it..
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If you are in need of some reminiscing about a different, older, slower, funnier,British world, this might just do it for you. I loved it since it brought back memeories of a different generation that could still laugh at itself. The fact that the cast did not all become Hollywood stars full of themselves makes it all the more appealing. It is professional amateurism at it its best.Delightful, charming, intelligent, witty, fun, light, in a world quite the opposite these days.
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I won't summarize as the previous reviewer did a great job. I highly recommend this series. It was televised in the 70s and it stands the test of time - how many comedies can pass that test? Just be prepared for racist humor that was acceptable back then, the misery landlord is very Archie Bunker. Leave it to the British to make a very funny comedy that doesn't need a laugh track. No regrets buying this set as repeated viewings still makes me laugh. I enjoyed this series and look forward to ... Read More
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Rising Damp is a classic 1970's British Comedy starring the talented and comical late Leonard Rossiter (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin--who died of heart failure in 1984, aged 58) as Rigsby, the crotchety, self-important, and highly-strung live-in landlord of a run-down boarding-house-style apartment. Rigsby is constantly scheming to attract the attention and affection of his tenant, Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour). But Rigsby is hopelessly inept, and although Ruth tries to be polite, it is ... Read More
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