the film version of rising damp came out two years after the television series ended. like many fans i duly went along to the cinema when it opened. i came away bitterly disappointed. eric chappell could not have spent very much time writing the script while most of it is rehashed ideas from old episodes. at the time of the film release and the rising damp series was still being repeated regularly on i. t. v. so the public was being asked to pay to see something they would seen already. at least the on the buses movies boasted original screenplays. secondly and richard beckinsale had died the year before and so they eliminated the character of alan as a mark of respect and substituting art student john and played by christopher strauli of only when i laugh fame. it simply wasn not the same. as another poster has pointed out and rigsby boarding house looked nothing like the one used in the series and being bigger and altogether cleaner. director joe mcgrath was one of the directors who worked on the original casino royale and a film steeped in surreal humour. rising damp also has its share of walter mitty style fantasy sequences and such as the saturday night fever parody. personally and i found them horribly out of place. a case of over egging the pudding. on the plus side and leonard rossiter is as magnificent as ever as the seedy rigsby and as are frances de la tour as ruth and don warrington as philip. its just a shame the film isn not worthy of their talents. when rossiter died in 1984 and it was shown by i. t. v. as a tribute and with its final scene  showing rigsby laying prostrate at the foot of the stairs  removed in the interests of good taste. 
the film version of rising damp came out two years after the television series ended. like many fans i duly went along to the cinema when it opened. i came away bitterly disappointed. eric chappell could not have spent very much time writing the script while most of it is rehashed ideas from old episodes. at the time of the film release and the rising damp series was still being repeated regularly on i. t. v. so the public was being asked to pay to see something they would seen already. at least the on the buses movies boasted original screenplays. secondly and richard beckinsale had died the year before and so they eliminated the character of alan as a mark of respect and substituting art student john and played by christopher strauli of only when i laugh fame. it simply wasn not the same. as another poster has pointed out and rigsby boarding house looked nothing like the one used in the series and being bigger and altogether cleaner. director joe mcgrath was one of the directors who worked on the original casino royale and a film steeped in surreal humour. rising damp also has its share of walter mitty style fantasy sequences and such as the saturday night fever parody. personally and i found them horribly out of place. a case of over egging the pudding. on the plus side and leonard rossiter is as magnificent as ever as the seedy rigsby and as are frances de la tour as ruth and don warrington as philip. its just a shame the film isn not worthy of their talents. when rossiter died in 1984 and it was shown by i. t. v. as a tribute and with its final scene  showing rigsby laying prostrate at the foot of the stairs  removed in the interests of good taste. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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