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 Lumiere were lovers at the time and they accepted the adult film work as a means of raising money for their film collective. The movie was given an X rating by the MPAA and premiered at the 57th Street Playhouse in New York City. In many theaters it was shown after "Deep Throat" as part of a double bill. "The Devil In Miss Jones" broke the box office record for a pornographic film. It was more commercially successful than both "Deep Throat" and "Behind the Green Door", and successfully competed against mainstream films. It earned $15 million in gross rental