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The Horse's Mouth (1958)

The Horse's Mouth poster
Directed by
Ronald Neame
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
15
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 49 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An eccentric and irascible painter pursues his art with single-minded obsession, often clashing with the people around him. He schemes and charms his way through London to find canvases and create his work.

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What happens

The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 British film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh and Renée Houston. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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