Alec Guinness
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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. [2] 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
A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders (Robert Coote, Veronica Turleigh) while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a...
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- Alec Guinness
- Ronald Neame
- Knightsbridge Films
Aug 29, 2023 · An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of ...
- 93 min
- 22
- Dave Butler
Winner of the Best Actor Award (Guiness) at the 1958 Venice Film Festival. Formerly distributed on video by Nelson Entertainment. Released in United States September 1958 (Premiered at Venice Film Festival September, 1958.) An unscrupulous artist fights to realize his vision of the perfect mural.
- Ronald Neame, Colin Brewer
- Alec Guinness
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).
