''Lock Up Your Daughters'' is a
1959
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horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...
starring
Bela Lugosi. Due to the lack of information on its production and release, it is uncertain whether it is a
lost film or if it ever existed.
Plot
Details on the film’s plot are sketchy. A 1959 review of the film that appeared in the British trade journal ''Kinematography Weekly'' claimed that Lugosi played a "vampiric doctor who experiments on young women in order to bring back to life his lovely wife." The review states the film incorporates clips from films made earlier in Lugosi’s career, with footage featuring the
Bowery Boys and "some of the great favourites of yesteryear."
Other reports on the film claim that Lugosi served as an on-screen host to a series of excerpts from his older films, while there are also assertions that ''Lock Up Your Daughters'' offered cash prizes for audience members who could identify the original films that provided excerpts for this production.
Production
''Lock Up Your Daughters'' was produced by
E.J. Fancey, using footage from 1940s horror films from
Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures Corporation was an American film studio that produced mostly low-budget films between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram was among the smaller studios i ...
starring Lugosi; and reportedly ran 50 minutes.
is credited as the film’s director.
It was made in
England and this was the only country where the film was seen. It appears to be a lost film, sought by the
BFI.
Alongside the ''Kinematograph Weekly'' review, the film was advertised in the ''
Liverpool Echo'' as playing alongside ''
The Neanderthal Man''. To date, no prints or press materials on the film have surfaced.
See also
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Bela Lugosi filmography
Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), best known for the original screen portrayal of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931, was in many movies during the course of his 39-year film career. He appeared in films made in his native Hungary, Germany and New York before ...
References
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1959 films
1959 horror films
Lost horror films
Lost American films
1950s lost films
Films produced by Sam Katzman
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