Bees in Paradise 1944  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Max Bacon, Antoinette Cellier, Joy Shelton, Beatrice Varley
Four men (Arthur Askey, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, and Max Bacon) bail out of their plane over Paradise Island and land in a bee-worshipping colony of women who cater to them. All four marry and then learn the reason that explains why there are no men on the island. According to colonial tradition, all males must commit suicide after their honeymoons. Is it too late, or is there an escape?
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Casino Royale 1967 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, George Raft, Joanna Pettet, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter O'Toole
Special Agent 007 James Bond (David Niven) is enjoying retirement when he is coaxed back into the Secret Service after M is slain. Bond's mission is to smash the spy organization SMERSH, which is headed by the evil Le Chiffre (Orson Welles), and to accomplish that goal, agents converge on Casino Royale. Burt Bacharach provided the good musical score. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ("The Look of Love").
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden, Reginald Beckwith, Gene Anderson, Arthur Christiansen, Austin Trevor, Renee Asherson
The worst fears of the Cold War are realized when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union detonate nuclear devices at the same time. This causes the Earth to get knocked out of orbit, and it starts a spiral toward the sun. What's a person to do? Not a bad flick; overall well directed and acted.
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Expresso Bongo 1959 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Meier Tzelniker, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Eric Pohlmann, Wilfrid Lawson, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Beckwith
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of a Soho hustler, Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey), who turns himself into an agent and successfully promotes a young musician, Bongo Herbert (Cliff Richard), amidst Soho's stripper clubs. Featured songs include: "Nausea," "I've Never Had It So Good," and "Shrine on the Second Floor."
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Further Up the Creek 1958 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Val Guest
Cast: David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries, Lionel Murton, Sam Kydd, David Lodge, Ian Whittaker, Esma Cannon, John Warren, Eric Pohlmann, Tom Gill, Max Day, Jack Le White
In this sequel, Lt. Fairweather (David Tomlinson) still commands the HMS Aristotle, which has now been sold to a foreign country, Algerrocco, in the Mediterranean. The crew will be delivering the frigate to Algerrocco, and Bosun Dibble (Frankie Howerd) sees this as a chance to make money by selling tickets to passengers for a Mediterranean cruise. This is a move that is definitely in violation of regulations, Fairweather has no idea of what Dibble has planned for his ship–and the fun begins.
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Hell Is a City 1960 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomelty, George A. Cooper, Geoffrey Frederick, Vanda Godsell, Charles Houston
Veteran police inspector Martineau (Stanley Baker) is on the trail of an escaped criminal, who Martineau believes is headed back to his home in Manchester to recover stolen jewels that resulted in the jail sentence. When a bank clerk is murdered and the money she was carrying disappears, Martineau knows he's on the right track and proceeds to get the entire gang until only the escapee is left. Good suspense as the final confrontation approaches.
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Quatermass II 1957  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Enemy from Space
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, William Franklyn, Charles Lloyd Pack, Percy Herbert, John Van Eyssen, Michael Ripper
Aliens invade and take over human bodies in this "Quatermass" episode featuring Brian Donlevy in the role of the gruff Dr. Quatermass.
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The Runaway Bus 1954 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris, Belinda Lee, Reginald Beckwith, Toke Townley, Terence Alexander, John Horsley, Marianne Stone, Stringer Davis, Lisa Gastoni, Frank Phillips, Sam Kydd, Michael Gwynn
Bus driver Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) is transporting passengers from foggy Heathrow airport to another airport. Unbeknownst to Percy, the perpetrator with a cache of stolen gold is on his bus, and to make matters worse, Percy and his passengers get lost in the fog.
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Up the Creek 1958 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Val Guest
Cast: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day, Michael Goodliffe, Lionel Jeffries, Frank Pettingell, Reginald Beckwith, Sam Kydd, Lionel Murton, Tom Gill, John Warren, Donald Bisset, Peter Coke, Basil Dignam
Humor in United States Navy protocol is the subject of this slapstick film.
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| 1. The Abominable Snowman (1957)
aka: The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
2. Bees in Paradise (1944)
3. Casino Royale (1967)
4. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
5. Expresso Bongo (1959)
6. Further Up the Creek (1958)
7. Hell Is a City (1960)
8. Killer Force (1975)
9. The Quatermass Experiment (1955)
aka: The Creeping Unknown
10. Quatermass II (1957)
aka: Enemy from Space
11. The Runaway Bus (1954)
12. Up the Creek (1958)
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