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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Horse's Mouth is the story of the later life of Gully Jimson: painter, pauper, genius. Taken from the novel by Joyce Cary, the film consists of a number of incidents which act as a vehicle for the character of Gully Jimson. Everything is pointed toward Jimson, everything aimed...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

Whatever might be conventional in the story, Guinness makes fresh. He is successively tyrannical and repentent, modest and lecherous. Though his moods change quickly, there is always that vein of demonic, supremely British humor which is characteristic of Guinness. Yet this film has a certain scope which surpasses anything which...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

In last week's heated MDC session that approved the founding of the new center, amendments proposed by the two men to submit the plan to the Attorney General for examination, to give local groups voting power, and to insure the non-profit character of the enterprise met with defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Officials Score Plan For New City Arts Center | 2/3/1959 | See Source »

A move more advantageous to the invading forces could scarcely have been planned by the Allied high command-as in fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Major Minor Poet | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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