Rising Damp de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington. Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play), the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self-regarding landlord of a run-down Victorian townhouse who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants. Beckinsale played Alan Moore, a long-haired, naive, good-natured and amiable medical student who occupies the top room. Frances de la Tour played Ruth Jones, a fey, whimsical spinster and college administrator who rents another room, with whom Rigsby is in love and to whom he proposes in the last episode. In the pilot episode, a new tenant arrives. Philip
The Devil in Miss Jones at the U.S. box office, making it the tenth most successful film of 1973, just behind "Paper Moon" with Ryan O'Neal and "Live and Let Die" with Roger Moore. As with the other films of the porno chic era, it was reviewed by the film critics of mainstream newspapers. The film's review in "Variety" said, "With "The Devil in Miss Jones", the hard-core porno feature approaches an art form, one that critics may have a tough time ignoring in the future," and compared its plot to Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit". The review went on to say, "Damiano has expertly