The Horse's Mouth

Original title: The Oracle

1953
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1h 25m

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An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

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6.4/10

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Trivia
Final film of Maire O'Neill.

Quotes
Shelagh: What's the use, Uncle Terry? He's English - he'll never understand.

Crazy credits
The Oracle (played by Gilbert Harding) complains loudly about the pointlessness of credits all the way through the start and end credits.

Soundtracks
There's No Place Like Home
(uncredited)
Written by H.R. Bishop

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6/10

Unsustained Whimsy

It Happened Tomorrow 1944,starring Dick Powell was an earlier and better use of this sort of story.The part of this film set on the island is fine but that part set in the newspaper office becomes a drag.Gilbert Harding,a top tv and radio personality of the fifties plays the Oracle