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  • The Day The Earth Caught Fire
  • The Day The Earth Caught Fire review by A customer from ballymena
    Rated - 5.0 stars The day before the day after tomorrow 12 March 2005
    ...novation in it's day. This was a deliberate choice on the part of the director, Val Guest, and not a financial one like the use of two differing film stocks in Lindsay A...   Read customer review
  • The Abominable Snowman
  • The Abominable Snowman review by alienlanes from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars The Abominable Snowman 29 June 2008
    ...acter Professor Bernard Quatermass. Kneale had already worked with the director Val Guest on the Hammer films ‘The Quatermass Xperiment’ and ‘Quatermass 2’, both also ba...   Read customer review

Val Guest - filmography


  • Space 1999 - S02 E21 - Dorzak (1975)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Catherine Schell,  Barbara Bain
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An Alien Space ship approaches Alpha asking for emergency assistance upon contact they discover that they are a prison transport ship carrying a prisoner called Dorzak to life in prisonment on an asteroid But Maya Knew Dorzak and claims he is a Poet and not a mass murderer and releases him
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  • Toomorrow on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Roy Dotrice,  Olivia Newton-John
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This science fiction musical concerns a group of students paying their way through school by forming a pop band. The group is led by Olivia Newton-John, and organist Vic Cooper has invented an instrument called the "tonaliser." The sonic vibrations from the invention causes an extra-terrestrial (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Casino Royale on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  David Niven,  Ursula Andress
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,866 members
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  • The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)
    Starring: Leo McKern,  Janet Munro,  Bernard Braden
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When the Americans test a nuclear weapon at the South Pole at the exact moment that the Soviets are testing their own weapon at the North, the earth's axis is jolted out of alignment, causing catastrophic changes in global weather patterns. Additionally, the earth has been dislodged from its orbit, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,728 member
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  • Yesterday's Enemy on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gordon Jackson,  Leo McKern,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BAFTA-nominated Hammer film, in which, cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite protestations from a padre and a war correspondent (Leo McKern), Langford orders that two innocent ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 107 members
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  • Hell Is A City (1959)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  John Crawford,  Billie Whitelaw
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Detective Inspector Martineau prepares himself for action when he hears of the jailbreak of the notorious thief Don Starling. When a robbery goes seriously wrong, Martineau will stop at nothing to make sure that Starling is caught...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 367 members
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  • Up The Creek on DVD (1958)
    Starring: David Tomlinson,  Peter Sellers,  Suraiya Hyder
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The forgotten H.M.S. Berkley has been without a commanding officer for two years in which time the skeleton crew has gone into the racketeering business with the landlord of a coastal village. When the Navy appoint Humphrey Fairweather as a long overdue replacement his unhealthy obsession with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 388 members
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  • Further Up The Creek (1958)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Shirley Eaton,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Further Up The Creek Serves Up Nautical Naughtiness Aplenty! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs. First to go is HMS Aristotle the secret shame of the Fleet! Under the temporary command of Bosun Dibble (Frankie Howerd), the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 284 members
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  • Camp On Blood Island on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Michael Goodliffe,  Barbara Shelley,  Andre Morell
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Hammer production. As World War II reaches its end, a group of men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp, under the sadistic command of Yamamitsu, who shoots prisoners for sport, and who has told his prisoners that he will kill ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 71 members
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  • The Abominable Snowman on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Forrest Tucker,  Peter Cushing,  Christopher Lee
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This is a so-so early Hammer horror film from Nigel Kneale, who also wrote The Quatermass Experiment. Forrest Tucker and botanist Peter Cushing lead an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains (actually the Pyrenees, but who's complaining?) in search of the legendary Yeti. Several mysterious locals ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 518 members
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  • It's A Wonderful World on DVD (1956)
    Starring: George Cole,  Terence Morgan,  Kathleen Harrison
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Would-be songsmiths, Ray Thompson (Terence Morgan) and Ken Miller (George Cole), manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the ditty hits the top of the charts, Thompson and Miller find themselves in the embarrassing and unenviable position of having ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 52 members
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  • Dance Little Lady on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Mai Zetterling,  Terence Morgan
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bitter sweet drama that follows the trials and tribulations of an expert ballerina and how she overcomes adversity after enduring a cruel, career-destroying car accident.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 25 members
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  • The Runaway Bus on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Margaret Rutherford,  Petula Clark
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bus driver Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) finds himself in a difficult situation when ordered to take a group of passengers from the foggy London Airport to another airport not knowing that he is in fact carrying stolen gold bullion that is about to be muggled. Frankie Howerd's first starring role.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 379 members
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  • Life with the Lyons on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Ben Lyon,  Bebe Daniels
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Lyons are moving into a luxurious new family home in London but as you'd expect, nothing goes smoothly. After a series of disasters, Mr. Hemingway, their new landlord, gets so nervous that he refuses to sign the lease. Rather than give up, the Lyons try to convince him that they are a normal, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 83 members
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  • Bees In Paradise on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Ronald Shiner,  Arthur Askey,  Anne Shelton
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Four pilots eject out of their plane and land on an island heavily populated by females. But the pilots are unaware that men are scarificed two months after marrying on the island...
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 61 members
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  • The Lyons in Paris on DVD
    Starring: Ben Lyon,  Bebe Daniels
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ben surprises Bebe with a trip to Paris to celebrate their wedding anniversary but - as usual - life with the Lyons is anything but plain sailing! For a start, their hotel suite is already occupied - by a menagerie of monkeys and penguins. Then daughter Barbara falls in love with a mad, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 91 members
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  • The Shillingbury Tales (2 discs)
    Starring: Robin Nedwell,  Diane Keen,  Lionel Jeffries
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The village of Shillingbury is a tranquil place, representative of traditional rural England. It is a picture postcard village of thatched roofs and afternoon cream teas. Everything is perfect...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 144 members
    Not available for rental

Val Guest facts

5 most recent films

Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense Vol. 1 - 3.0 stars
Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective - 3.5 stars
The Diamond Mercenaries - 3 stars
Space 1999 - S02 E12 - Space Warp - 3 stars
Space 1999 - S02 E16 - One Moment of Humanity - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hell Is A City - 3.5 stars
Margaret Lockwood Collection - 3.5 stars
Yesterday's Enemy - 3.5 stars
Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective - 3.5 stars
Camp On Blood Island - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Diamond Mercenaries - 3 stars
Dance Little Lady - 2.0 stars
Toomorrow - 3.0 stars
Casino Royale - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Weapon - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Barbara Bain - 10 times - show films
Martin Landau - 10 times - show films
Peter Graves - 7 times - show films
Catherine Schell - 6 times - show films
Nick Tate - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Sasdy - 8 times - show films
John Hough - 4 times - show films
Gabrielle Beaumont - 4 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 3 times - show films
John Huston - 3 times - show films