Val Guest — Playwright (18)
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The Lyons in Paris (1955)
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Val Guest actor: Ben Lyon / Bebe Daniels …
other title: The Lyons Abroad
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
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It's a Wonderful World (1956)
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Val Guest actor: George Cole / Terence Morgan …
other title: 美好世界
Two aspiring songwriters finally 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, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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Miss London Ltd. (1943)
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Val Guest actor: Arthur Askey / Evelyn Dall …
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.
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Carry On Admiral (1957)
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Val Guest actor: David Tomlinson / Peggy Cummins …
other title: Carry on Admiral / ¡A la orden, almirante! …
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
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Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim …
other title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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The Runaway Bus (1953)
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Val Guest actor: Frankie Howerd / Margaret Rutherford …
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
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Marcel Varnel actor: Will Hay / Moore Marriott …
other title: Otto, zieh die Bremse an! / Oh, Mr Porter! …
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
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Quatermass 2 (1957)
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瓦尔·格斯特 actor: Brian Donlevy / John Longden …
other title: 쿼터매스 2 / Usina de Monstros …
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. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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Happy Go Lovely (1951)
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H. Bruce Humberstone actor: 大卫·尼文 / Vera-Ellen …
other title: Glücklich und verliebt / Horas de ensueño …
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The Quatermass Xperiment
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瓦尔·杰斯特 actor: 布莱恩·唐莱维 / 杰克·华纳 …
other title: 夸特马斯实验 / 쿼터매스 엑스페리먼트 …
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and 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.