Rising Damp his wife. Seedy and furtive, Rigsby has poor interpersonal skills. His professed love of Miss Jones is mostly sexual. She rejects him due to him being married, until his marriage ends and Miss Jones accepts his proposal. As he pries and spies upon his tenants, Rigsby often carries Vienna, his large, fluffy, black-and-white tomcat. Rigsby's amiable pet, and confidant, is so named because - as Rigsby tells it - when he goes to put him out on a cold dark night, if there is another set of eyes out there, then it's Good Night, Vienna. Ruth Jones (Frances de la
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