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The Horse's Mouth is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Ronald Neame released in USA on 11 november 1958 with Kay Walsh

The Horse's Mouth (1958)

The Horse's Mouth
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Released in USA 11 november 1958
Length 1h37
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Themes Peinture
Rating69% 3.4970653.4970653.4970653.4970653.497065

The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 film directed by Ronald Neame and filmed in Technicolor. Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay from the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, and also played the lead role of Gulley Jimson, a London artist.

Synopsis

Eccentric painter Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is released from a one-month jail sentence for telephone harassment of his sponsor, Mr Hickson (Ernest Thesiger). Nosey Barbon (Mike Morgan), who wants to be Jimson's protégé, greets Jimson at Wormwood Scrubs, but Jimson tries to discourage Nosey from pursuing painting for a living. Jimson steals Nosey's bike to make his way back to his houseboat, which his older lady friend Coker (Kay Walsh) has been maintaining in Jimson's absence.

Actors

Kay Walsh

(Dee Coker)
Alec Guinness

(Gulley Jimson)
Robert Coote

(Sir William Beeder)
Michael Gough

(Abel)
Reginald Beckwith

(Capt. Jones)
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