Lock Up Your Daughters

Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)

It's the restoration comedy about what can't be restored!

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Date of release
1969-03-29
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Peter Coe

Casting

Interesting facts

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 Tom Jones (1963).

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.

The movie was going to be made by Nat Cohen at Anglo Amalgamated but was eventually done by Columbia. It was Christopher Plummer's first musical since The Sound of Music (1965). Filming started in Ireland in March 1968.

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