The Huggetts Abroad
1949 | 89m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Ken Annakin |
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| Writer: | Mabel Constanduros, Denis Constanduros, Gerard Bryant, Ted Willis |
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| Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 21, 1949 |
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| Director: | Ken Annakin |
| Writer: | Mabel Constanduros, Denis Constanduros, Gerard Bryant, Ted Willis |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | huggett family |
| Production Companies | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jack Warner | Joe Huggett |
| Kathleen Harrison | Ethel Huggett |
| Dinah Sheridan | Jane Huggett |
| Susan Shaw | Susan Huggett |
| Petula Clark | Pet Huggett |
| Jimmy Hanley | Jimmy Gardner |
| Peter Hammond | Peter Hawtrey |
| Hugh McDermott | Bob McCoy |
| Amy Veness | Grandma Huggett |
| John Blythe | Gowan |
| Everley Gregg | Miss Phipps |
| Esma Cannon | Brown Owl |
| Brian Oulton | Travel Clerk |
| Olaf Pooley | Straker |
| Martin Miller | Customer |
| Meinhart Maur | Jeweller |
| Philo Hauser | Egyptian |
| Peter Illing | Algerian Detective |
| Frith Banbury | French Doctor |
| Marcel Poncin | Commander of the Fort |
| Fred Griffiths | Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ken Annakin | Director |
| Mabel Constanduros | Screenplay |
| Denis Constanduros | Screenplay |
| Gordon Hales | Editor |
| Reginald H. Wyer | Director of Photography |
| Gerard Bryant | Screenplay |
| Ted Willis | Screenplay |
| Antony Hopkins | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Betty E. Box | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Easily the most far-fetched outing for our stoical post-war British family, this one sees them embark on a trans-African trip after "Father" (Jack Warner) loses his job and "Jimmy" (Jimmy Hanley) manages to get himself one - in Johannesburg. Needless to say, they haven't two farthings to rub togethe ... r, and when poor old daughter "Jane" (Dinah Sheridan) can't get a visa to accompany her husband the whole family (with varying degrees of willingness) decide to decamp - by truck - and drive the 4,000-odd miles. Luckily (or not) they have the slightly iffy character of "Bob" (Hugh McDermott) to help (?) them so off they go. It's preposterous, from start to finish - even if back then, Britain still controlled great chunks of Africa. The comedy is absurd and the normally reliable leadership of Warner and on-screen wife Kathleen Harrison is subsumed into an almost episodic lesson in rather poorly written and executed slapstick. The charm and cheeriness of these films was always their selling point. This has neither, really, and at 90 minutes is far too long, too.