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Here Come the Huggetts (1948)

Here Come the Huggetts poster
Directed by
Ken Annakin
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a comedy about the Huggett family, a working class British household. Joe and Ethel Huggett and their children get into a series of everyday mishaps and misunderstandings.

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What happens

Here Come the Huggetts is a 1948 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark, Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw and Amy Veness, with Diana Dors in an early role. It was written by Mabel Constanduros, Denis Constanduros and Peter Rogers and released by Gainsborough Pictures. The lead characters of Joe and Ethel had been introduced a year earlier in Holiday Camp (Annakin, 1947) and there were two 1949 sequels: Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad, also directed by Annakin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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