Lock Up Your Daughters

1h 43m 1969

Brief Synopsis

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Cast & Crew

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Peter Coe

Director

Christopher Plummer

Lord Foppington

Susannah York

Hilaret

Glynis Johns

Mrs. Squeezum

Ian Bannen

Ramble

Tom Bell

Shaftoe

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Musical
Period
Release Date
Jan 1969
Premiere Information
New York opening: 15 Oct 1969
Production Company
Domino Productions
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures
Country
United Kingdom
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Screenplay Information
Based on the musical Lock Up Your Daughters , book by Bernard Miles, music by Laurie Johnson, lyrics by Lionel Bart (London, 28 May 1959) and the play The Coffee House Politicians or The Justice Caught in His Own Trap by Henry Fielding (London, 1730) and the play The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger by John Vanbrugh (London, 1696).

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 43m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)

Synopsis

Three sex-starved sailors--Shaftoe, Ramble, and Lusty--arrive in 18th-century London after a lengthy sea voyage. Shaftoe plans to elope with Hilaret, but he is mistakenly charged with rape and thrown into jail. He finds Ramble already there on the same charge after an encounter with the flirtatious Lady Eager. Hilaret attracts the attention of the lecherous Mr. Squeezum, whose wife enjoys the company of the two prisoners. Ramble, it is discovered, is the wayward husband of Hilaret's maid, Cloris. Meanwhile, Lusty is rejected by the usually available Nell in favor of wealthy Lord Foppington. In revenge, Lusty steals Lord Eager's clothes and seduces Hoyden, Foppington's fiancée, the virgin daughter of Sir Tunbelly Clumsey. Lusty persuades Bull, a worldly priest, to marry him to Hoyden; Bull earlier had agreed to marry Shaftoe and Hilaret. Lusty's maneuvers are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Lords Eager and Foppington. After many complications and misunderstandings, however, all lovers are reunited.

Director

Peter Coe

Director

Cast

Christopher Plummer

Lord Foppington

Susannah York

Hilaret

Glynis Johns

Mrs. Squeezum

Ian Bannen

Ramble

Tom Bell

Shaftoe

Elaine Taylor

Cloris

Jim Dale

Lusty

Fenella Fielding

Lady Eager

Roy Kinnear

Sir Tunbelly Clumsey

Kathleen Harrison

Lady Clumsey

Roy Dotrice

Master Gossip

Peter Bayliss

Justice Squeezum

Georgia Brown

Nell

Edward Atienza

Justice Worthy

Peter Bull

Bull

Blake Butler

Faithful

Paul Dawkins

Lord Eager

Wallas Eaton

Staff

Fred Emney

Earl of Ware

Vanessa Howard

Hoyden

Arthur Mullard

Night watchman

Patricia Routledge

Nurse

Richard Wordsworth

Coupler

Trevor Ray

Quill

Michael Darbyshire

La Verole

Ron Pember

Bottle

John Morley

Nobleman

Clive Morton

Boswell

Roger Hammond

Johnsonian figure

Tony Sympson

Clerk of the court

Martin Crosbie

Cecil Sheehan

Tom Irwin

Danny O'connor

Vernon Hayden

Derry Power

Constables

Crew

Len Abbott

Re-Recording

Robert Allen

Recording

Alan Barrett

Costume Design

Bert Batt

Assistant Director

Ernie Blake

Constr Manager

Miriam Brickman

Casting adv

Frank Clarke

Film Editor

Edward Cross

Ch Electrician

Doreen Dearnaley

Cont

David Deutsch

Producer

Gerald Deutsch

Assistant to the prod

Geoffrey Glover

Focus op

Ron Grainer

Music comp & Conductor

Willis Hall

Screenwriter

Susie Hill

Hairstyles

Ron Jackson

Production Manager

Mike Le Mare

Sound Editing

Ken Lewington

Wardrobe master

Brian Mccarthy

Constr Manager

Anthony Nelson-keys

Associate Producer

W. T. Partleton

Makeup

Ron Robson

Camera Operator

Peter Spencer

Props master

Peter Suschitzky

Director of Photography

Anne Triebner

Hairstyles

Keith Waterhouse

Screenwriter

Ian Whittaker

Set Decoration

Tony Woollard

Production Design

Peter Young

Set Decoration

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Genre
Comedy
Adaptation
Musical
Period
Release Date
Jan 1969
Premiere Information
New York opening: 15 Oct 1969
Production Company
Domino Productions
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures
Country
United Kingdom
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Screenplay Information
Based on the musical Lock Up Your Daughters , book by Bernard Miles, music by Laurie Johnson, lyrics by Lionel Bart (London, 28 May 1959) and the play The Coffee House Politicians or The Justice Caught in His Own Trap by Henry Fielding (London, 1730) and the play The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger by John Vanbrugh (London, 1696).

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 43m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)

Quotes

Trivia

Notes

Filmed in Ireland. Released in Great Britain in 1969.

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States Fall October 1969

Released in United States Fall October 1969

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