RIP Val Guest
Val Guest, director of The Quatermass Experiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire, is dead at 94.
From the LA Times:
"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" — a 1961 drama in which secret, simultaneous nuclear detonations by the United States and the Soviet Union knock Earth off its axis and send it hurtling toward the sun as the world's weather turns chaotic — earned Guest and co-writer Wolf Mankowitz best British screenplay awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The doomsday drama was told through the characters of two Fleet Street reporters.
Guest later said President Kennedy asked for his own copy and screened it for 200 foreign correspondents in Washington.
Read the full LA Times article on Val Guest.
From the LA Times:
"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" — a 1961 drama in which secret, simultaneous nuclear detonations by the United States and the Soviet Union knock Earth off its axis and send it hurtling toward the sun as the world's weather turns chaotic — earned Guest and co-writer Wolf Mankowitz best British screenplay awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The doomsday drama was told through the characters of two Fleet Street reporters.
Guest later said President Kennedy asked for his own copy and screened it for 200 foreign correspondents in Washington.
Read the full LA Times article on Val Guest.
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