Val Guest · 1950s

3 films directed by Val Guest from the 1950s, on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality.

Decade

All 3 1950s 3

Year

All 3 1950 0 1951 0 1952 0 1953 0 1954 1 1955 1 1956 0 1957 1 1958 0 1959 0

The Men of Sherwood Forest(1954)

5.6/10

dir. Val Guest

A-Tier

Hammer's first color feature, a 1954 Robin Hood Eastmancolor swashbuckler from Val Guest, restored in 4K from the original negatives. The Limited Collector's Edition pairs it with a 4K restoration of Wolfshead, the 1969 unaired Robin Hood TV pilot Hammer bought as a second feature. A-Tier on avforums at 8/10, Region ABC.

Hammer Films · Limited Edition

The Quatermass Xperiment(1955)

6.6/10

dir. Val Guest

A-Tier

The film that put Hammer on the horror/sci-fi map, and their own 4K is the definitive edition. Five discs with three cuts (UK Theatrical, As-Filmed, and the re-titled US "Creeping Unknown"), plus the surviving BBC 1953 serial episodes packaged with the film for the first time. A-Tier on avforums.

Hammer Films · Limited Collector's Edition

Quatermass 2(1957)

6.8/10

dir. Val Guest

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.