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Val Guest
Writer 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 →

Filmography

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18 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Another Man's Poison

Another Man's Poison

Irving Rapper 1951 1h 30m

Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

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.

Good Morning, Boys!

Good Morning, Boys!

Marcel Varnel 1937 1h 19m

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.

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