Val Guest

Val Guest

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Director), 49 (Writer)

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    The Day the Earth Caught Fire
    British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. (imdb)
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    Confessions of a Window Cleaner
    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. (imdb)
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    When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
    Set in a nonexistent past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their gods in return for protection from the giant lizards looking to snack on them. Sanna, one of the sacrificial offerings, finds herself on her own when a freak storm interrupts the ceremony. As she searches for a safe haven, she encounters hostility from rival tribes and lots of huge and very hungry dinos. (imdb)
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    Au Pair Girls
    Four young women from Europe and Asia, recently arrived in England, begin their new jobs as Au Pairs. They quickly find that the English are not as stuffy and staid as they appear, and the young ladies are soon spending more time in bed than on the job. (imdb)
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    Old Bones of the River
    Professor Benjamin Tibbets goes up river in Africa to open schools for natives but ends up stirring up a full native revolt. (Amazon)
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    Where\
    A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. (imdb)
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    Hell Is a City
    Inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try and track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might. (Jeremy Perkins)
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    Killer Force
    A heist force attempts to rob the diamond mine facility. (imdb)
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    Another Man\
    In an isolated house, mystery writer Janet Frobisher is involved in potentially murderous relationships. (imdb)
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    Happy Go Lovely
    A chorus girl stars in a broke producer's show after rumors link her with a millionaire in Scotland. (wikipedia)
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    Break in the Circle
    An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West. (imdb)
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    The Camp on Blood Island
    Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder them all when he learns of his country's defeat, Dutch, a Dutch planter, smashes the camp radio. British officer Lambert and, in the women's prison, the recently-widowed Kate, join Dutch in arming the prisoners (imdb)
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    Carry on Admiral
    Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a public relations executive and the other is a captain of a ship. His lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes. (imdb)
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    The Runaway Bus
    When heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one among their number is the mastermind behind a bullion robbery at the airport... and particularly keen to escape the fog! (imdb)
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    Stop Me Before I Kill!
    After surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife. (imdb)
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    The Ghost Train
    Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers. (imdb)
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    Back-Room Boy
    The man who sends out the pips on the B.B.C. goes gay one night and syncopates the rhythm. Consequently he is sent to a lonely lighthouse with a bad local reputation for mysterious disappearances, to start a new meteorological station. (BFI)
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    Assignment K
    Philip Scott, head of a successful toy company, is also secretly the head of a British spy unit. When his cover is blown, enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his operatives. (imdb)
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    Penny Princess
    A ordinary young American woman learns that she has become the owner of a tiny European country. Comedy and romance ensue. (imdb)
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    Jigsaw
    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. (imdb)
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    Give Us the Moon
    Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina. (imdb)
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    The Boys in Blue
    Uk 80's comedy duo Cannon and Ball are two inept police officers in the village of Little Botham. The village is so quiet that the station is threatened with closure. In an attempt to keep it open they stumble across a local art thief gang responsible for a million pound theft.
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    80,000 Suspects
    British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if he hasn't got enough trouble on his hands, Johnson must contend with his failing marriage to Claire Bloom. Both of his problems are solved to everyone's satisfaction, but not without a few hypertense moments along the way. (allmovie.com)
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    Bees in Paradise
    our pilots are forced to bail out, and they end up stuck upon a remote tropical island filled with beautiful women. This musical comedy chronicles their adventures. Things go well for the flying Sea Bees as the women fawn upon them and cater to their every whim. Soon they find themselves four wives, and it is not until it is nearly too late that they discover why there are no men on the island--- all husbands are expected to commit suicide following their honeymoons. (allmovie.com)
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    Contest Girl
    On a seaside holiday, pretty Bristol typist Shirley meets Dan Mackenzie from her local paper. He persuades her that she has what it takes in the world of beauty contests, and so it proves. Ditching her predictable fiance and having to leave home, Shirley moves to London to continuing success. Increasingly smitten by her, Dan reckons he should be more than just her manager, but this is not at all the way Shirley sees things. (imdb)
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    Dance Little Lady
    The story of a successful dancer's fight with her husband for the attention of their daughter. (imdb)
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    Further Up the Creek
    A naval captain has to deal with dodgy dealings by his crew. (imdb)
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    Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
    The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contributes to the intrigue as one Mrs. Wilkinson, who is, not all she seems to be. (imdb)
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    It\
    No relation to the 1939 Claudette Colbert-James Stewart comedy of the same name, It's a Wonderful World is essentially a vehicle for British-based bandleader Ted Heath. The thinnish plot is set in motion by would-be songwriters Terence Morgan and George Cole, who manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, Morgan and Cole find themselves in the embarrassing position of having to produce the "real" composer. (allmovie.com)
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    King Arthur Was a Gentleman
    Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasising about King Arthur and his knights. (imdb)
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    Life Is a Circus
    The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization. (imdb)
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    London Town
    An aging music hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight. (imdb)
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    Miss London Limited
    In this musical an American's daughter owns an escort agency. Even though WW II rages and men are hungry for females, the woman's business is flagging until she comes up with some enterprising schemes to turn things around. (allmovie.com)
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    Mister Drake\
    Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible. (imdb)
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    O-Kay for Sound
    Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. (imdb)
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    Alf\
    Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears. (imdb)
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    Paper Orchid
    A murder mystery set in the newspaper industry. (imdb)
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    A Star Fell from Heaven
    In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
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    Gasbags
    The Crazy gang invade Nazi Germany !! They accidentally pilot a balloon over enemy territory. (imdb)
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    Public Nuisance No. 1
    Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!
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    Band Waggon
    A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs. (imdb)
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    I\
    In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher convinces both songwriters and a music hall singer with his new ideas to make business, while fighting both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected. A well crafted British musical with plenty of popular songs.
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    No Monkey Business
    To help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.
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    Toomorrow
    Dying aliens kidnap the pop group, Toomorrow, whose social musical instrument's "vibrations" are needed for their race to survive. (imdb)
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    Just William\
    William and "the Nites of the Square Table" haunt a house - the plan is complicated by fur rustlers.
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    William Comes to Town
    William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
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    Murder at the Windmill
    A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
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    Once Upon a Dream
    Chaos ensues when a woman wakes up believing that a romantic dream about her new servant is reality.
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    Miss Pilgrim\
    An young American lady arrives in Britain to advise on factory working practices and ends up embroiled in a local battle that evokes the spirit of magna Carta.
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