The Lion's Mouth is a 2000 film directed by Ken Russell.
[1] Russell made it in his own house for his own money for a budget of 20,000 pounds.
[2] It launched Russell on a series of self financed "underground" films, a return to the sort of movies he made at the start of his career.
When no actor seemed suitable for the role of the vicar, Russell decided to change the film to be a Citizen Kane style investigation of a journalist into the history of the vicar.
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