Stephen Griffin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Stephen Griffin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So there was a huge distinction between the classes there.
With The Old Dark House, which was based on a story called Benighted by J.B.
Priestley.
Incidentally, they spell Priestley wrong in the credits of the film.
And that was seen as a kind of microcosm of the British class system.
So you've got Charles Lawton as the industrialist, the sort of new money who enters the film halfway through.
Boris Karloff is the butler and Ernest Thesiger is the slightly effete, more than slightly effete owner of the house.
So there was a class structure in that.
Screaming is different because it's, I mean, you can't really take it seriously at all.
So I don't... Carry-ons liked that.
They would send up the upper classes.
Carry-on up the Khyber is probably the epoch of that.
But... Yeah.
No, I...
I don't think that's really relevant to it.
Also, The Old Dark House and Carry On Screaming, both satires, but they are poles apart.
Yes, it was played by a woman.
The old man is actually played by a woman.
Yeah.
No, it's a it is a very odd film.
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