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The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 British film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh and Renée Houston. The screenplay was by Alec Guinness based on the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary. It was produced by John Bryan and Neame and filmed in Technicolor.
The Horse's Mouth: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan. An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
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- Comedy
- Ronald Neame
- 1958-11-11
The Horse's Mouth is a 1944 novel by Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary, the third in his First Trilogy, whose first two books are Herself Surprised (1941) and To Be a Pilgrim (1942).
Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the ...
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- Alec Guinness
- Ronald Neame
- Knightsbridge Films
The Horse’s Mouth. In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson.
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Horse's Mouth, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) The Old Dreadnought Painter Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) and ally Cookie (Kay Walsh) drop in on his crafty ex-wife Sarah (Renee Houston) in The Horse's Mouth, 1958, from Guinness' own screenplay.
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Synopsis. In London, artist Gulley Jimson is released from prison after serving a month's sentence for being a public nuisance. Frustrated by a shortage of funds, Gulley immediately resumes his harassment of wealthy Mr. Hickson, who owns several of Gulley's paintings sold to him by Gulley's ex-wife Sarah Monday.
