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.
A comedy film based on Joyce Cary's novel about a troublesome artist who seeks the perfect wall to paint his vision. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read reviews and trivia, and learn about the Oscar nomination and the novel series.
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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).
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...
- (19)
- Alec Guinness
- Ronald Neame
- Knightsbridge Films
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.
- Ronald Neame, Colin Brewer
- Alec Guinness
A classic comedy film starring Alec Guinness as a rebellious painter, based on Joyce Cary's novel. The Horse's Mouth is a witty exploration of artistic creation and the challenges of life.
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The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction.
