Lock Up Your Daughters | movie | 1969 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down. | dG1fVHA2SzFsc21DaTA

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00:00 In Kilkenny, which likes to call itself the Marble City, all is not as it seems.

00:08 For the city's been putting on a false front, especially for the making of a

00:13 film which is set in the London of the 18th century. Whole streets have been

00:18 transformed and already old buildings have been made still more ancient as

00:22 Kilkenny throws itself wholeheartedly into the business of making an epic. For

00:27 the film Lock Up Your Daughters has been shot entirely on location here and it's

00:32 costing 1 million pounds. Optimistic local businessmen are gleefully

00:37 calculating that anything up to 200,000 pounds will be left behind in their

00:41 shops and pubs when the film makers leave. With all that money floating

00:46 around most of the people here have turned a deaf ear to rumors that this

00:50 picture is going to be a sort of unexpurgated version of Tom Jones. There have been

01:00 reports of wild orgies in some of the bedroom scenes and while the film

01:04 company hasn't admitted that they're true it hasn't denied them either for a

01:08 soupçon of sex is good box office. The producer David Deutsch put it like this

01:13 I'd say it's lively more than sexy. What about all the rumors though? Well the

01:18 rumors about the hundred and fifty prostitutes from Limerick. Are there 150

01:22 prostitutes in Limerick? Limerick would be very ashamed if it was true but this is

01:27 not true then in fact. No I only wish it was true. How about the scene of the

01:31 naked girl running down the street? Well it's not in the script so I don't

01:34 suppose we'll shoot it. The press handouts issued by Domino

01:37 Productions speak of a bawdy boisterous restoration comedy based largely on

01:43 Hogarth and some of the characters fit into that famous illustrators

01:46 uncomplimentary view of his fellow citizens.

01:51 Do it up. Yes. It's tight enough. For Elaine Taylor who's one of the 15 big

01:59 names in the picture the job of getting in and out of her period costume each

02:03 day can be a bit breathtaking.

02:12 Blood rushed to my eyes. They're about halfway through the shooting now and Kilkenny is

02:17 getting adjusted to what's going on. For the unsophisticated citizen to whom a

02:22 nightclub is something a policeman hits you with when the pubs close it's all a

02:26 bit mystifying but the law is on hand to make sure that the innate purity of the

02:31 Irish isn't sullied. The town clerk Peter Farrelly is one of the local officials

02:36 who's been drawn into the somewhat unworldly atmosphere of picture making.

02:40 Well now I've seen a lot of shots of this film I've seen rushes of it I see

02:44 nothing that anybody could be ashamed of. I'm certainly not ashamed of having this

02:48 film in the city in fact I'm very proud it's been made here. There's nothing bawdy

02:52 about it. The extras blend into the surroundings of Kilkenny in an uncanny

02:56 manner. The city was picked as the location for the picture because of its

03:00 resemblance to the London of two centuries ago. A slur which Kilkenny has

03:05 managed to overlook and the character seemed to be almost a natural part of

03:09 the scene. It's uncharitable but probably true to say that some of them wouldn't

03:13 look a great deal different in their ordinary everyday clothes.

03:18 Thank you.