Val Guest Quotes

• And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

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  Tags in Finally, Good, Married

• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn’t comedy.

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  Tags in Terrible, Letting

• At those times I got into… I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

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  Tags in Comedy, Somehow, Rut, Break

• Now, I’ll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn’t get anybody to touch it, to publish it – he couldn’t do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publish, Fleming, Casino, Nobody

• Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story… I don’t if anybody knows what it is but it was about… in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Early, Russia, Caught, Happened, Fire

• Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man’s Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

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  Tags in Location, Davis, Poison

• I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made… I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Murder, Danny, Accepted, Angel

• And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That’s how he saw Bond.

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  Tags in Based, David, Bond

• I don’t know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

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  Tags in Bond, James, Eighteen

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill… as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

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  Tags in Bits And Pieces

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

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  Tags in Roger, Favourite, Moore

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

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  Tags in Edgar, Solidly

• No, we didn’t shoot… in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex… there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

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  Tags in Suggestions, Scenes, Scene

Val Guest (13)

Birth:	11th December, 1911
Death:	10th May, 2006
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director

About

Val Guest was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.

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