Here Come the Huggetts
| Here Come the Huggetts | |
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| Directed by | Ken Annakin |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box |
| Written by |
Muriel Box Sydney Box Peter Rogers Denis Constanduros Mabel Constanduros |
| Starring |
Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton Susan Shaw Petula Clark |
| Music by | Antony Hopkins |
| Cinematography | Reginald H. Wyer |
| Edited by | Gordon Hales |
Release dates |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £100,000[1] |
| Box office | £127,000[1] |
Here Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British film, the first of the Huggetts series, about a working-class English family. All three films in the series were directed by Ken Annakin and released by Gainsborough Pictures.
Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison headed the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel (the couple had been introduced a year earlier in the film Holiday Camp), with Petula Clark, Jane Hylton, and Susan Shaw as their young daughters (all named after the actresses portraying them) and Amy Veness as their opinionated grandmother.
Although the plot lines of this and its sequels, Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949) were slight – revolving around such trivialities as a flighty cousin (Diana Dors) who wrecks the family car, the installation of a telephone, an incursion into municipal politics, and an excursion to South Africa with a diamond smuggler as a fellow passenger – they were the type of light comedies that found favour with British audiences still reeling from the impact of the Second World War.
Clark, who began her career as a child vocalist on BBC Radio, sang the tune "Walking Backwards" in the film.
Cast
- Jack Warner as Joe Huggett
- Kathleen Harrison as Ethel Huggett
- Jane Hylton as Jane Huggett
- Susan Shaw as Susan Huggett
- Petula Clark as Pet Huggett
- Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner
- David Tomlinson as Harold Hinchley
- Diana Dors as Diana Hopkins
- Peter Hammond as Peter Hawtrey
- John Blythe as Gowan
- Amy Veness as Grandma Huggett
- Clive Morton as Mr. Campbell
- Maurice Denham as 1st Engineer
- Doris Hare as Mrs. Fisher
- Esma Cannon as Youth Leader
- Alison Leggatt as Miss Perks
- Dandy Nichols as Aunt Edie
- Hal Osmond as 2nd Engineer
- Peter Scott as Office Boy
- Keith Shepherd as Vicar
- Edmundo Ros as Himself (as Edmundo Ros and His Rhumba Band)
References
External links
- Here Come the Huggetts at the Internet Movie Database
- Review of film at Variety