“Being an actor of distinction, Guinness again creates a unique and very personal character — a caricature of an artist and a genius that is at once comical, pitiable, and tragic.”
Alec Guinness stars as Gulley Jimson, an ageing and ill-behaved artist recently released from prison. Determined to let nothing come between his limited means and his exalted vision, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders (Robert Coote, Veronica Turleigh) while they go on an extended vacation... Adapted from Joyce Carey’s classic novel of the same name, by Alec Guiness himself (who earned himself an Oscar nomination) The Horse’s Mouth is a brilliant-but-underseen British comedy.