Here Come the Huggetts

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.

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• Cast
• References

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)