And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

The film was a remake of an earlier picture called Ask a Policeman released in 1939 which Guest himself had co-written. He married the actress Yolande Donlan in 1954. He went on to direct produce and script a huge number of films over the following forty years with perhaps his best known work being on the first two Hammer Films Quatermass science-fiction adaptations in the 1950s: The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and Quatermass 2 (1957).