Stand by · pulling the latest frames
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At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.
7.0
Score
33
Mervyn Peake, Malcolm McKay
BBC Two

Gormenghast intro

Christopher Lee
Flay

Warren Mitchell
Barquentine

Zoë Wanamaker
Clarice Groan

Lynsey Baxter
Cora Groan

June Brown
Nannie Slagg

George Antoni
Bookman

Sean Hughes
Poet

Ian Richardson
Lord Groan

Richard Griffiths
Swelter

Olga Sosnovska
Keda

Eric Sykes
Mollocks

Windsor Davies
Rottcodd

Stephen Fry
Professor Bellgrove
Cameron Powrie
Cameron Powrie
Young Titus

Mark Williams
Professor Perch
One-Upmanship
1976