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 fashioned a bizarre melodrama," and described the opening scene as "a sequence so effective it would stand out in any legit theatrical feature". It finished by stating, "Booking a film of this technical quality into a standard sex house is tantamount to throwing it on the trash heap of most current hard-core fare." According to Peter Michelson there is, "a relatively small corpus of [pornographic] films—e.g., "Deep Throat", "Devil in Miss Jones", "Behind the Green Door"—that have a minimal but still sufficient artistic interest to distinguish themselves from the rest of the genre". Other critics have described it as, along