The Horse's Mouth is a 1958 film directed by Ronald Neame and filmed in Technicolor. Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay from the 1944 novel The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary, and also played the lead role of Gulley Jimson, a London artist. The film begins with the release of the eccentric painter Gulley Jimson from a one-month jail sentence for telephone harassment of his sponsor, Mr Hickson . Nosey Barbon , who wants to be a protégé of Jimson, greets Jimson at Wormwood Scrubs, but Jimson tries to discourage Nosey from pursuing painting for a living. Jimson makes off with Nosey's... bike to make his way back to his houseboat, which Coker, an older lady friend, has been attending in Jimson's absence. Jimson tries to borrow money from Hickson and Coker , but Hickson sets the police to trace the phone call back to Jimson. Jimson and Coker later visit Hickson to try to secure advance payment for the early Jimson works. However, after Jimson has tried to steal works from Hickson's place and Coker has stopped him, Hickson and his secretary have called the police to have them ejected.
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