Val Guest Movies

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

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...

A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but...

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

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...

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...

Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and...

Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

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...

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'...

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane

Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasizing about King Arthur and his knights.

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

An attractive young widow thinks that she is investing in a respectable riding school, only to find out she has bought a brothel.

Shaw is the south end of a horse for an ice show, but she longs to be a ballerina. It looks like she will achieve that goal, but will her oversized...

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...

Made for Gaumont British Films in London. Featuring comedian Arthur Askey, a humorous film warning against sneezing in public during W.W.II. With...

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.