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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. 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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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).
Aug 29, 2023 · The Horse's Mouth - Classic British Comedy (1958) Starring Alec Guinness. An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come...
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The Horse’s Mouth, British screwball comedy film, released in 1958, that starred Alec Guinness as the eccentric fictional artist Gulley Jimson. It was adapted by Guinness from the third part of a trilogy by English novelist Joyce Cary. Jimson is a talented but disreputable artist who has just been.
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Gulley is the son of a “proper” painter who has dropped out, into the proletarian-bohemian world. His companion in misfortune, Kay Walsh’s acerbic proletarian barmaid Coker, is certainly a “character,” but one superbly realized and with a dignity as rare in British cinema as the conviction of Guinness’ obsessed artist.
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A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor.