Lock Up Your Daughters (1959 film)

Lock Up Your Daughters is a 1959 horror film 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."[1]

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.[1]

Production

Lock Up Your Daughters was allegedly produced by Sam Katzman, who produced films at Monogram Pictures in the 1940s starring Lugosi, and ran 50 minutes.[1] Phil Rosen is credited as the film’s director.[1] It is not certain when or where the film was made, though some people have presumed it was made in England because this was the only country where the film was allegedly seen. However, Lugosi was last in England during 1951, and the only film he made at the time was Mother Riley Meets the Vampire. Lugosi died in 1956.[2]

The Kinematograph Weekly review is the only official acknowledgment that the film existed; there is no record of the film ever being theatrically released. To date, no prints or press materials on the film have surfaced.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gary Don Rhodes (1997). Lugosi. McFarland. pp. 381–383. ISBN 0-7864-0257-1.
  2. ↑ Nate Yapp (October 1, 2000). "Frank Dello Stritto Interview". Classic-Horror.com. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  3. ↑ Phil Hall (January 25, 2001). "Film Threat’s Top 10 Lost Films (4-6)". Film Threat. Retrieved 2009-08-13.

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