The Horse’s Mouth
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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 Neame’s comic masterpiece.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Digital transfer supervised by director Ronald Neame
- Interview with Neame
- D. A. Pennebaker’s short documentary film Daybreak Express, which opened the original New York theatrical run of The Horse’s Mouth, with a video introduction by Pennebaker
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Cover design by Michael Boland, based on a theatrical poster
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Digital transfer supervised by director Ronald Neame
- Interview with Neame
- D. A. Pennebaker’s short documentary film Daybreak Express, which opened the original New York theatrical run of The Horse’s Mouth, with a video introduction by Pennebaker
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Cover design by Michael Boland, based on a theatrical poster
![The Horse’s Mouth](https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/c6959a1673c21a4b3e6548fb30fef56a/8xozXlxosdeqIbRkrZGdsFsQqKBq5V_large.jpg)
Cast
- Alec Guinness
- Gulley Jimson
- Kay Walsh
- Coker
- Renee Houston
- Sara Monday
- Mike Morgan
- Nosey
- Michael Gough
- Abel
Credits
- Director
- Ronald Neame
- From the novel by
- Joyce Cary
- Screenplay
- Alec Guinness
- Music
- Kenneth V. Jones
- Cinematography
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Editing
- Anne V. Coates
- Art direction
- Bill Andrews
- Costumes
- Julia Squire
- Paintings
- John Bratby
- Producer
- John Bryan
- Producer
- Ronald Neame
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