Posted by Peter Ceresole on August 17, 2013 at 23:42:24 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: How about the Mastadon, is he one of Ransome's working-class characters posted by Mike Dennis on August 16, 2013 at 08:33:47:
I was really shocked, not that he was well spoken but it was posh, and posh in the way of comedy actors in films!
His manner of speaking was very typical of a Victorian bourgeois, which is what he was. That was why actors in Old British Movies spoke like that too, whatever their origins. In fact Michael 'Blow the bloody doors off' Cane broke newish ground as a leading man who actually spoke cockney. Ish. He was careful to keep it understandable for posher and more American audiences.