Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)
| Lock Up Your Daughters | |
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.jpg) Original British quad poster | |
| Directed by | Peter Coe |
| Written by | Henry Fielding (play) John Vanbrugh (play) Lionel Bart (play) Willis Hall Bernard Miles Keith Waterhouse |
| Produced by | David Deutsch |
| Starring | Christopher Plummer Susannah York Glynis Johns Ian Bannen |
| Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky |
| Edited by | Frank Clarke |
| Music by | Ron Grainer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (UK & US) |
Release date | 1969 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Lock Up Your Daughters! is a 1969 British historical comedy film directed by Peter Coe, and starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York and Ian Bannen.[1] It is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name set in 18th-century Britain. 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.[2]
Plot
A bawdy yarn concerning three sex-starved sailors on leave and on the rampage in a British town.[3]
Cast (credited)[4]
- 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
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."[5]
References
- ^ "Lock up Your Daughters!". BFI.
- ^ Murphy p.6
- ^ "Advertisement". Variety.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064597/fullcredits#cast
- ^ "Lock Up Your Daughters! A Comic Resolution", New York Times, October 16, 1969
Bibliography
- Murphy, Robert. Sixties British Cinema. British Film Institute, 1992.
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