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Here Come the Huggetts is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ken Annakin with Jack Warner
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
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Add to a movie listHere Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British film, the first of the 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.
Synopsis
La vie de famille est calme chez les Huggett, en tous cas jusqu'à ce que la jolie Diana arrive chez eux pour quelques jours.Actors
Jack Warner
(Joe Huggett)
Kathleen Harrison
(Ethel Huggett)
Jane Hylton
(Jane Huggett)
Susan Shaw
(Susan Huggett)
Petula Clark
(Pet Huggett)
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