Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

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Cast

Alec Guinness

Gulley Jimson

Kay Walsh

Dee Coker

Renée Houston

Sara Monday

Robert Coote

Sir William Beeder

Michael Gough

Abel

Reginald Beckwith

Capt. Jones

Arthur Macrae

A.W. Alabaster

Ernest Thesiger

Hickson

Joan Hickson

Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)

Timothy Bateson

Clerk to Borough Surveyor (uncredited)

Jim Brady

Workman (uncredited)

Victor Brooks

Foreman (uncredited)