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The day before the day after tomorrow 12 March 2005
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Worth the Effort 10 November 2008
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The Abominable Snowman 29 June 2008
Val Guest - filmography
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Space 1999 - S02 E21 - Dorzak
(1975)
Starring: Martin Landau, Catherine Schell, Barbara Bain
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
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:
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 »
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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:
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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 »
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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: 
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 »
67%
from 1,728 member
Not available for rental
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Yesterday's Enemy
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Leo McKern, Stanley Baker
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 107 members
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Hell Is A City
(1959)
Starring: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
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...
69%
from 367 members
Not currently released
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Up The Creek
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Suraiya Hyder
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 388 members
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Further Up The Creek
(1958)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, David Tomlinson
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
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 »
62%
from 284 members
Not currently released
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Camp On Blood Island
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Michael Goodliffe, Barbara Shelley, Andre Morell
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
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 »
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from 71 members
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The Abominable Snowman
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
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 »
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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
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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 »
58%
from 52 members
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Dance Little Lady
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Mai Zetterling, Terence Morgan
Director: Val Guest
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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.
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from 25 members
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The Runaway Bus
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark
Director: Val Guest
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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.
61%
from 379 members
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Life with the Lyons
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
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 »
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:
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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...
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from 61 members
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The Lyons in Paris
on DVD
Starring: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels
Director: Val Guest
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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 »
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from 91 members
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The Shillingbury Tales
(2 discs)
Starring: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Val Guest
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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...
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from 144 members
Not available for rental
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Val Guest facts
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...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...
