Directed by:
Ronald NeameScreenplay:
Alec GuinnessCinematography:
Arthur IbbetsonComposer:
Kenneth V. JonesCast:
Alec Guinness, Joan Hickson, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Peter Bull, Clive Revill, Rosalind Knight, Reginald Beckwith, Renee Houston, Kay Walsh (more)VOD (1)
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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. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. A perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic creation, The Horse's Mouth is also director Neame's comic masterpiece. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Alec Guinness](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/234/164234597_fa4283.jpg)
Alec Guinness
UK
Best movies:
![Joan Hickson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276194_0e05b2.jpg)
Joan Hickson
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Man with a Million (1954)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
![Michael Gough](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273017_6e4263.jpg)
Michael Gough
Malaysia
Best movies:
Corpse Bride (2005)
Out of Africa (1985)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
![Ernest Thesiger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271467_50e517.jpg)
Ernest Thesiger
UK
Best movies:
The Detective (1954)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Man with a Million (1954)
![Peter Bull](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272437_d12805.jpg)
Peter Bull
UK
Best movies:
![Clive Revill](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/473/473464_1d76f1.jpg)
Clive Revill
New Zealand
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Avanti! (1972)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
![Rosalind Knight](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/347/347598_806745.jpg)
Rosalind Knight
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998) (TV movie)
Richard III (1955)
![Reginald Beckwith](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/474/161474241_a6dddd.jpg)
Reginald Beckwith
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
Man with a Million (1954)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
![Renee Houston](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/739/159739562_269c4c.jpg)
Renee Houston
UK
Best movies:
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Repulsion (1965)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
![Kay Walsh](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/760/160760282_bec979.jpg)
Kay Walsh
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Magic Box (1951)
Scrooge (1970)
Richard Caldicot
UK
Best movies:
Room at the Top (1959)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Follow a Star (1959)
![Fred Griffiths](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/384/161384925_45d6af.jpg)
Fred Griffiths
UK
Best movies:
To Sir, with Love (1967)
The Early Bird (1965)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
May Hallatt
UK
Best movies:
Room at the Top (1959)
Separate Tables (1958)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Gillian Lind
India
Best movies:
Fear in the Night (1972)
And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
![Robert Coote](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/306/165306806_b4a2fc.jpg)
Robert Coote
UK
Best movies:
Othello (1952)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
Richard Leech
Ireland
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Florence Nightingale (1985) (TV movie)
The Dam Busters (1955)
John Kidd
UK
Best movies:
Much Ado About Nothing (1984) (TV movie)
Witness for the Prosecution (1982) (TV movie)
Plenty (1985)
Patrick McAlinney
Ireland
Best movies:
The Omen (1976)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Jack Chissick
UK
Best movies:
Escape from Sobibor (1987) (TV movie)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
A Christmas Carol (1999) (TV movie)