Here Come the Huggetts

Here Come the Huggetts
Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Betty E. Box
Starring	Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton Susan Shaw Petula Clark
Music by	Antony Hopkins
Cinematography	Reginald H. Wyer
Editing by	Gordon Hales
Release date(s)	Template:Film date1949
Running time	93 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Here Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British film, the first of the Huggetts Trilogy about a working class English family. All three films 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 favor with British audiences still reeling from the impact of World War II.

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

External links

• Here Come the Huggetts at the Internet Movie Database