Here Come the Huggetts
| Here Come the Huggetts | |
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| Directed by | Ken Annakin |
| Written by | Mabel Constanduros Denis Constanduros Peter Rogers |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box |
| Starring | Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton Susan Shaw Petula Clark Jimmy Hanley David Tomlinson Diana Dors Peter Hammond John Blythe Amy Veness |
| Cinematography | Reginald H. Wyer |
| Edited by | Gordon Hales |
| Music by | Antony Hopkins |
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| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £100,000 |
| Box office | £127,000 |
Here Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British comedy 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 head the cast as factory worker Joe Huggett and his wife Ethel, with Petula Clark, Jane Hylton and Susan Shaw as their young daughters (all with the same first names as the actresses portraying them) and Amy Veness as their opinionated grandmother. Diana Dors had an early role. Clark, who began her career as a child vocalist on BBC Radio, sings the song "Walking Backwards".
Joe and Ethel had been introduced a year earlier in the film Holiday Camp and there would be two sequels, Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad (both 1949).