Themes: Crowned Heads, Servants and Employers, Rise To Power
Main Cast: Christopher Lee, Neve McIntosh, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Release Year: 2000
Country: UK
Run Time: 240 minutes
Plot
The Groan family has led the people for years from their castle, Gormenghast. Although a new heir, Titus Groan, has just come into the world, a scheming kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins an elaborate attempt to take control. Surprisingly Steerpike faces his stiffest competition from the usually mild-mannered Titus, the Earl of Goran. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Lynsey Baxter - Cora; June Brown - Nannie Slagg; Stephen Fry - Professor Bellgrove; Richard Griffiths - Swelter; Christopher Lee - Flay; Warren Mitchell - Barquentine; Ian Richardson - Lord Groan; John Sessions - Dr. Prunesqualor; Fiona Shaw - Irma Prunesqualor; Zoë Wanamaker - Clarice; Celia Imrie - Gertrude; Neve McIntosh - Fuchsia Groan; Andrew N. Robertson - Older Titus Groan; Cameron Powrie - Younger Titus Groan
Credit
John Harle - Conductor, Odile Dicks-Mireaux - Costume Designer, Andy Wilson - Director, Paul Tothill - Editor, Michael Wearing - Executive Producer, Rebecca Eaton - Executive Producer, Hilary Salmon - Executive Producer, Richard Rodney Bennet - Composer (Music Score), Joan Hills - Makeup, Christine Greenwood - Makeup, Christopher Hobbs - Production Designer, Gavin Finney - Cinematographer, Estelle Daniel - Producer, Malcolm McKay - Screenwriter, The BBC Philharmonic - Musical Performer, Mervyn Peake - Book Author
