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Val Guest
Director 1911 - 2006

Val Guest

London, England, UK

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Val Guest (11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

21 titles
Killer Force

Killer Force

Val Guest 1976 1h 42m 5.0

A five-man team of professionals undertake a daring robbery at a diamond mine.

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Val Guest 1974 1h 30m 5.0

Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.

Au Pair Girls

Au Pair Girls

Val Guest 1972 1h 25m

Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Val Guest 1970 1h 40m 8.0

A tribe muscle-men and curvy-babes struggles in a cruel world populated by humans and dinosaurs.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale

John Huston, Robert Parrish 1967 2h 11m 7.2

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

The Beauty Jungle

The Beauty Jungle

Val Guest 1964 1h 50m

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects

Val Guest 1963 1h 53m

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

Val Guest 1962 1h 47m 9.0

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Val Guest 1961 1h 38m 7.3

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.

The Full Treatment

The Full Treatment

Val Guest 1960 1h 48m 7.0

Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise.

Life Is a Circus

Life Is a Circus

Val Guest 1960 1h 21m

The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization.

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City

Val Guest 1960 1h 38m

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who's escaped from prison.

Yesterday's Enemy

Yesterday's Enemy

Val Guest 1959 1h 35m 7.0

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted

The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island

Val Guest 1958 1h 21m 5.0

In a WWII Malayan prison camp, Dutch destroys the radio to prevent commandant Yamamitsu from learning of Japan's defeat and killing all captives. He, British officer Lambert, and widow Kate prepare to arm the prisoners.

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman

Val Guest 1957 1h 25m 7.5

A bunch of limey Brits meet an ill met fate at the hands of the Yeti.

Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

Val Guest 1957 1h 25m 6.8

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.

The Weapon

The Weapon

Val Guest 1956 1h 18m 6.0

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

Val Guest 1955 1h 22m 7.1

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

The Men of Sherwood Forest

The Men of Sherwood Forest

Val Guest 1954 1h 17m

Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured.

Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise

Val Guest 1944 1h 12m

During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.

Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.

Val Guest 1943 1h 39m

Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.

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