Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)

Lock Up Your Daughters
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	30 March 1969 (1969-03-30) (London) October 15, 1969 (1969-10-15) (New York City) October 21, 1969 (1969-10-21) (United States)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Lock Up Your Daughters! is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Peter Coe and starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York and Glynis Johns. 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 1963 film Tom Jones.

Plot

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.

Christopher Plummer agreed to star, in what would be his first musical since The Sound of Music. Filming started in Ireland in March 1968.

Reception

In his review in the New York Times, Roger Greenspun wrote: "...a three-strand plot that has been so smothered in atmosphere, activity and authenticity that even the great traditions of theatrical untruth cannot breathe life into it. The production values of "Lock Up Your Daughters!" are ambitious enough to fill three movies, but they are not sufficient to substitute for one."

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Sixties British Cinema. British Film Institute, 1992.

External links

• Lock Up Your Daughters at IMDb
• Lock Up Your Daughters at Letterbox DVD
• Lock Up Your Daughters at the British Film Institute
• Lock Up Your Daughters at the TCM Movie Database