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Val Guest, a versatile British director, is renowned for his work in various genres, including science fiction, horror, and comedy. He directed the critically acclaimed film "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" and contributed significantly to the Hammer Horror series. His innovative storytelling and direction have left a lasting impact on British cinema.
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"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."

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"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."

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

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

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

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"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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"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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"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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"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."

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

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"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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