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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Horse's Mouth, this is a nimble Alec Guinness vehicle built around an improbably determined British misfit, with crisp comic escalation and affectionate satire rather than broad farce.
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Why this pick
Its elegant, wickedly dry British humour and Guinness's virtuoso transformations make a fine companion to Gulley Jimson's gleefully anti-respectable artistry.
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Why this pick
An eccentric, idealistic inventor crashes into a world of entrenched interests in this sharply observed Ealing comedy, sharing the original's comic hostility toward practical, respectable society.
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Why this pick
Tony Hancock's accidental modern-art sensation offers a similarly caustic comic look at artistic ambition, imposture, patrons, and a hero magnificently ill-suited to conventional life.
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Why this pick
For the more anarchic edge of The Horse's Mouth: a flamboyant, unruly outsider destabilises polite British institutions in a dark, highly theatrical satire.
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01 / THE STORY
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 (actor)), who wants to be Jimson's protégé, greets Jimson at Wormwood_Scrubs_(HM_Prison), 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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dee Coker
Sir William Beeder
Abel
Capt. Jones
Gulley Jimson
