Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)
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Willis Hall
Keith Waterhouse
based on play Rape upon Rapeby Henry Fielding
adapted by Bernard Miles
music by Laurie Johnson lyrics by Lionel Bart
| Lock Up Your Daughters | |
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![](#/media/File:"Lock_Up_Your_Daughters"_(1969).jpg) Original British quad poster | |
| Directed by | Peter Coe |
| Written by | Bernard Miles Willis Hall Keith Waterhouse |
| Based on | musical Lock Up Your Daughters based on play Rape upon Rapeby Henry Fielding adapted by Bernard Miles music by Laurie Johnson lyrics by Lionel Bart |
| Produced by | David Deutsch |
| Starring | Christopher Plummer Susannah York Glynis Johns Ian Bannen |
| Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky |
| Edited by | Frank Clarke |
| Music by | Ron Grainer |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Domino Films |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (UK & US) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £878,986[1] |
Lock Up Your Daughters! is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Peter Coe and starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York and Glynis Johns.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name set in 18th-century Britain, which in turn is based on the 1730 comedy, Rape upon Rape, by Henry Fielding It lacks all the songs from the original stage production. It was one of a number of British costume films released in the wake of the success of the Tom Jones (1963).[3]
A bawdy yarn concerning three sex-starved sailors on leave and on the rampage in a British town.
Cast
- Christopher Plummer as Lord Foppington
- Susannah York as Hilaret
- Glynis Johns as Mrs. Squeezum
- Ian Bannen as Ramble
- Tom Bell as Shaftoe
- Elaine Taylor as Cloris
- Jim Dale as Lusty
- Kathleen Harrison as Lady Clumsey
- Roy Kinnear as Sir Tunbelly Clumsey
- Georgia Brown as Nell
- Vanessa Howard as Hoyden
- Roy Dotrice as Gossip
- Fenella Fielding as Lady Eager
- Paul Dawkins as Lord Eager
- Peter Bayliss as Mr. Justice Squeezum
- Richard Wordsworth as coupler
- Peter Bull as Bull
- Wallas Eaton as Staff (credited as "Wallace Eaton")
- Trevor Ray as Quill
- Blake Butler as Faithful
- Arthur Mullard as Night Watchman
- Edward Atienza as Mr. Justice Worthy
- Patricia Routledge as nurse
- Roy Pember as Bottle
- Fred Emney as Earl of Ware
- John Morley as nobleman
- Tony Sympson as Clerk of the Court
- Michael Darbyshire as La Verole
- Clive Morton as Bowsell
- Roger Hammond as Johnsonian Figure
Production
The musical ran for four years in England but never had a major production in the US. It had a run at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1967.[4]
The movie was going to be made by Nat Cohen at Anglo Amalgamated but was eventually done by Columbia.[5] It was Christopher Plummer's first musical since The Sound of Music (1965). Filming started in Ireland in March 1968.[6]