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'''''Lock Up Your Daughters''''' is a [[1959 in film|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 [[The Bowery Boys|Bowery Boys]] and "some of the great favourites of yesteryear."<ref name=BL>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aueo3mOrIKIC |title=Lugosi. His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers |author=Gary Don Rhodes |author-link=Gary Don Rhodes |chapter=6. Lock Up Your Daughters, 1959 (pp. 381-3) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aueo3mOrIKIC&q=%226.+Lock+Up+Your+Daughters,+1959%22+%22Bela+Lugosi%22&pg=PA381 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-78640257-1}}</ref>

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.<ref name=BL />

==Production==
''Lock Up Your Daughters'' was produced by [[E.J. Fancey]], using footage from 1940s horror films from [[Monogram Pictures]] starring Lugosi; and reportedly ran 50 minutes.<ref name=BL /> [[Phil Rosen]] is credited as the film’s director.<ref name=BL /> 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]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 September 1959 |title=On The Screen Next Week |pages=4 |work=[[Liverpool Echo|The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=12 September 1959 |title=Essoldo Circuit Popular Presentations For Sunday, Sept. 13 |pages=8 |work=[[Liverpool Echo|The Liverpool Echo and Evening Express]]}}</ref> To date, no prints or press materials on the film have surfaced.<ref>{{cite news |author=Phil Hall |date=January 25, 2001 |title=Film Threat's Top 10 Lost Films (4-6) |publisher=Film Threat |url=https://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=440 |access-date=2009-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612053842/http://www.filmthreat.com/features/440/ |archive-date=12 June 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Bela Lugosi filmography]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0127007|title=Lock Up Your Daughters}}
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[[Category:1959 films]]
[[Category:1959 horror films]]
[[Category:Lost horror films]]
[[Category:Lost American films]]
[[Category:1950s lost films]]
[[Category:Films produced by Sam Katzman]]


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