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 director Neame"s comic masterpiece.