Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)

Lock Up Your Daughters
Original British quad poster
Directed byPeter Coe
Written byBernard Miles
Willis Hall
Keith Waterhouse
Based onmusical 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 byDavid Deutsch
StarringChristopher Plummer
Susannah York
Glynis Johns
Ian Bannen
CinematographyPeter Suschitzky
Edited byFrank Clarke
Music byRon Grainer
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Domino Films
Distributed byColumbia 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
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 361
  2. ^ "Lock Up Your Daughters". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ^ Murphy, Robert (1992). Sixties British CInema. London: British Film Institute. p. 6. ISBN 0851703240.