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For Val Guest, directing Quatermass 2 wasn’t some weighty artistic mission; it was a job to get done on time and on budget, and he says so with the same matter-of-fact charm he brought to the set.
In this 2003 interview, Guest talks through the American backing that finally got the production out of the studio and onto location at Shell Haven, the battle over casting Brian Donlevy as Quatermass despite Nigel Kneale’s objections, and how he ended up discovering both Vera Day and Sid James in the process.
Studio: Hammer