I just watched The Abominable Snowman (Val Guest, 1957) and rated it 5/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abominable_Snowman_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #TheAbominableSnowman #NigelKneale #ValGuest #PeterCushing #hammer ~ world have been better without Forrest Tucker shouting all the way through it

"Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the #Sun."

#OnThisDate, May 23, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961) is the #FilmDuJour. #ValGuest #JanetMunro #LeoMcKern #UK #SciFi #ColdWar #GlobalWarming #1960s ★★★★☆

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

65 years ago:
The Camp on Blood Island (UK)
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal an...
1958-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/123755
#TheCamponBloodIsland #ValGuest #AndréMorell #PhilBrown #BarbaraShelley #Hammer #Columbia

56 years ago:
Casino Royale (UK)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get mo...
1967-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12208
#CasinoRoyale #ValGuest #DavidNiven #PeterSellers #UrsulaAndress #Columbia #ClassicMovies

63 years ago:
Hell Is a City (UK)
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned ...
1960-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28784
#HellIsaCity #ValGuest #StanleyBaker #JohnCrawford #DonaldPleasence #Hammer #ClassicMovies

71 years ago:
Penny Princess (UK)
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman...
1952-03-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50755
#PennyPrincess #ValGuest #DirkBogarde #ClassicFilm

79 years ago:
Bees in Paradise (UK)
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two ...
1944-03-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/173436
#BeesinParadise #ValGuest #ClassicMovies

I just watched The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Caught_Fire?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastadon #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire #ValGuest

A new #FilmsTRIPS podcast is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at the 1961 sci-fi drama #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire! https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-02-07T15_38_53-08_00 #ValGuest #EdwardJudd #JanetMunro #WolfMankowitz #LeoMcKern #HarryWaxman

Remembering #ValGuest (1911-2006), the exceptional, BAFTA-winning English film & TV director, screenwriter and actor, born Valmond Maurice Grossman in London #OnThisDay. His screen career spanned six decades, but best known for his stark, gritty genre films of the 1950s and 60s, notably...

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