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February 1949 (UK)
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Cast
(in credits order) | 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 |
| Isa Bowman | ... | Old Lady |
| Eliot Makeham | ... | Mr. Christie |
| Nellie Bowman | ... | Old Lady |
| Clive Morton | ... | Mr. Campbell |
| Norman Shelley | ... | Mr. Wilson |
| Lyn Evans | ... | Sergeant Pike |
| Hal Osmond | ... | Fishmonger |
| Elizabeth Hunt | ... | Mrs. Lever |
| Ferdy Mayne | ... | Waiter |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Woolf Phillips | ... | Himself (as Woolf Phillips and the Skyrockets) |
| Esma Cannon | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) |
| Howard Douglas | ... | Chairman of the First Meeting (uncredited) |
| Arthur Hambling | ... | Newspaperman (uncredited) |
| Dennis Harkin | ... | Heckler (uncredited) |
| Mike Johnson | ... | Private Detective (uncredited) |
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| Ken Annakin | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Denis Constanduros | writer | |
| Mabel Constanduros | writer | |
| Allan MacKinnon | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Betty E. Box | .... | producer | |
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| Antony Hopkins | |||
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| Reginald H. Wyer | |||
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| Gordon Hales | |||
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| Norman G. Arnold | |||
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| Yvonne Caffin | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Len Garde | .... | makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Gerry O'Hara | .... | assistant director (as Gerald O'Hara) | |
Sound Department | |||
| H.L. Bird | .... | sound recordist | |
| B.C. Sewell | .... | director of sound (as Brian Sewell) | |
Music Department | |||
| Woolf Phillips | .... | songs (uncredited) | |
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- General Film Distributors (GFD) (1949) (UK) (DVD)
- American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1956) (USA) (TV)
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The only known screen appearance of all three Bowman sisters.See more »
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Follows Here Come the Huggetts (1948)See more »
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Compliments Will Get You NowhereSee more »
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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.