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5.7/10   25 votes
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Director:
Ken Annakin
Writers:
Denis Constanduros (writer)
Mabel Constanduros (writer)
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Release Date:
February 1949 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
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It gets my vote every time more (3 total)

Cast

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Jack Warner ... Joe Huggett, Father
Kathleen Harrison ... Ethel Huggett, Mother
Susan Shaw ... Susan Huggett, Daughter
Petula Clark ... Pet Huggett, Daughter
David Tomlinson ... Harold Hinchley
Diana Dors ... Diana Gowan
Peter Hammond ... Peter Hawtrey
Amy Veness ... Grandma Huggett
Hubert Gregg ... Maurice Lever
John Blythe ... Gowan
Anthony Newley ... Dudley
Charles Victor ... Mr. Hall
Adrianne Allen ... Mrs. Hall
Frederick Piper ... Mr. Bentley
Empsie Bowman ... Old Lady
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
84 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Gainsborough Pictures more

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Movie Connections:
Follows Here Come the Huggetts (1948) more
Soundtrack:
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
It gets my vote every time, 29 September 2006
7/10
Author: Gary170459 from Derby, UK

This was Huggetts film 3/4, all were solidly entertaining fun family fare. They're also fascinating in depicting a long dead world – you find yourself continually wondering what everyone involved would have thought about modern cosmopolitan Britain and how much or little they would have enjoyed it. Did people really prefer plaice to cod?

Sentimental old codger Dad Huggett has the bright idea (pre-Passport to Pimlico) of getting the local council to build a lido and park for the community to disport itself in. Unfortunately various posh vested interests weigh in, one side eventually persuading him to run as a councillor, the other side running a smear campaign. The family members little stories all dovetail nicely in what is a surprisingly complicated plot for this kind of film, but needless to write, Good wins out in the end! This role was just meat to Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison uttered some splendid malapropisms, Pet Clark sung a nice old song, Hubert Gregg played a sex-starved married man, and it's refreshing to see Diana Dors pre-sex bomb. Dad's seriously endearing comment to Ma "I can't abide pretty or clever women an' you're neither" to her delight still resonates all these years later.

Well worth watching to those of us who enjoy watching cheaply made British post-War b&w musical comedy semi soap operas.

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