the film version of rise damp come out two year after the television series end . like many fan i duly go along to the cinema when it open . i come away bitterly disappointed . eric chappell could not have spend very much time write the script while most of it be rehash idea from old episode . at the time of the film release and the rise damp series be still be repeat regularly on i. t. v. so the public be be ask to pay to see something they would see already . at least the on the bus movie boast original screenplay . secondly and richard beckinsale have die the year before and so they eliminate the character of alan a a mark of respect and substitute art student john and play by christopher strauli of only when i laugh fame . it simply wasn not the same . a another poster have point out and rigsby boarding house look nothing like the one use in the series and be big and altogether cleaner . director joe mcgrath be one of the director who work on the original casino royale and a film steep in surreal humour . rise damp also have it share of walter mitty style fantasy sequence and such a the saturday night fever parody . personally and i find them horribly out of place . a case of over egg the pudding . on the plus side and leonard rossiter be as magnificent a ever a the seedy rigsby and a be france de la tour a ruth and don warrington a philip . it just a shame the film isn not worthy of their talent . when rossiter die in 1984 and it be show by i. t. v. a a tribute and with it final scene show rigsby lay prostrate at the foot of the stair remove in the interest of good taste .