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  • The Day The Earth Caught Fire
  • The Day The Earth Caught Fire review by A customer from ballymena
    Rated - 5 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...  
  • Expresso Bongo
  • Expresso Bongo review by Leon Collins from London
    Rated - 3 stars Soho in the 50s 21 November 2005
    ...re on the pre-Beatles pop music industry but as Harvey is sidelined by director Val Guest's wife, Yolande Donlan, as a fading Hollywood star, the film faulters. Sylvia S...  

Val Guest - filmography


  • Adult Content
  • Further Up The Creek on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Shirley Eaton,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Val Guest
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 59% from 161 members
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  • Quatermass 2 on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  John Longden,  Sid James
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: 12
    Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which, on his arrival, he finds has been destroyed...
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 223 members
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  • The Quatermass Experiment on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Jack Warner,  Thora Hird
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: PG
    A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in England two crew members have disappeared but the third, who is barely alive, turns into a 'thing'. The 'thing' starts killing humans and animals to feed its transformation...
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 300 members
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  • The Runaway Bus on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Margaret Rutherford,  Petula Clark
    Director: Val Guest
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 124 members
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  • Life with the Lyons on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Ben Lyon,  Bebe Daniels
    Director: Val Guest
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.0 43% from 62 members
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  • Up The Creek on DVD
    Starring: David Tomlinson,  Peter Sellers,  Suraiya Hyder
    Director: Val Guest
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 257 members
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  • The Lyons in Paris on DVD
    Starring: Ben Lyon,  Bebe Daniels
    Director: Val Guest
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.0 43% from 75 members
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Val Guest - downloads


  • Bees In Paradise for Download (1944)
    Starring: Anne Shelton,  Arthur Askey,  Ronald Shiner
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: PG
    Buy from: £2.99
    Run time: 72 minutes
    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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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
Au Pair Girls - 2.0 stars
Casino Royale - 2.5 stars
The Day The Earth Caught Fire - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Margaret Lockwood Collection - 3.5 stars
Hell Is A City - 3.5 stars
The Day The Earth Caught Fire - 3.5 stars
Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective - 3.5 stars
Quatermass 2 - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Dance Little Lady - 3 stars
It's A Wonderful World - 3.0 stars
Bees In Paradise - 3.0 stars
Miss London Ltd - 3.0 stars
Au Pair Girls - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Arthur Askey - 4 times - show films
Anne Shelton - 4 times - show films
David Tomlinson - 3 times - show films
Ronald Shiner - 2 times - show films
Reginald Beckwith - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Peter Sasdy - 2 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 1 times - show films
John Huston - 1 times - show films
Roy William Neill - 1 times - show films
Robert P - 1 times - show films