Rising Damp

Year: 1980

Runtime: 98 mins

Language: English

Director: Joseph McGrath

Comedy

Stingy landlord Rigsby dupes his two tenants—John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student—by forcing them to share a single room and pay the full rent. Rigsby’s preferred lodger, Miss Jones, shows more interest in Philip than in him, leaving Rigsby to fumble hopelessly at courting her.

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