Rising Damp (1980)
Frances de la Tour: Miss Ruth Jones
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Quotes
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[Rigsby and Miss Jones are at a restaurant]
Miss Ruth Jones : I must say, I do like this place. Do you come here often?
Rigsby : Oh yes. It's one of my old bachelor haunts.
Miss Ruth Jones : I thought you were married?
Rigsby : In name only, Miss Jones. It was a long time ago. At the end of the war - VJ night. She surrendered the same day as Japan. We resumed hostilities a week later.
Miss Ruth Jones : You make your marriage sound like a war!
Rigsby : Oh, it was, Miss Jones. Long periods of boredom followed by short bursts of violence. We should never have got married. There was only one woman I really liked in those days - Greer Garson. I saw all her films. Her and Walter Pidgeon.
Miss Ruth Jones : Did your wife remind you Greer Garson?
Rigsby : No, no... She looked more like Walter Pidgeon, actually.
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Miss Ruth Jones : [points to magazines in Rigsby's hands] What are those?
Rigsby : Oh, they're, er... photographic studies, Miss Jones... for the nature lover. A sort of hymn of praise to the female form.
Miss Ruth Jones : Do you mean they're nudes?
Rigsby : Er... yes.
Miss Ruth Jones : [disgusted] I see. If you'll excuse me, Mr. Rigsby. It's rather warm in here.
Rigsby : [Rigsby confronts Bert] What did you have to go and do that for? What's she going to think of me now?
Bert : Well I'm sorry, Rigsby. I didn't know you fancied her.
Rigsby : Well, why not?
Bert : I thought you only like women with staples across their stomachs.
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Miss Ruth Jones : Well, I decided to do a few gentle exercises. And Philip has shown me some wonderful things to do on two chairs.
Rigsby : Hmm, I bet he has. I wouldn't take too much notice of him, Miss Jones.
Miss Ruth Jones : You must admit, he has a wonderful physique.
Rigsby : He hasn't been coming down here with his shirt open again, has he?
Miss Ruth Jones : No, of course not.
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[Rigsby and Philip are boxing]
Miss Ruth Jones : Go in and kill him, Philip!
