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{{Infobox film
| image          = Huggetts.jpg
| image_size     =
| caption        =
| director       = [[Ken Annakin]]
| producer       = [[Betty E. Box]]
| writer         = [[Muriel Box]]<br />[[Sydney Box]]<br />[[Peter Rogers]]<br />Denis Constanduros<br />[[Mabel Constanduros]]
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Jack Warner (actor)|Jack Warner]]<br />[[Kathleen Harrison]]<br />[[Jane Hylton]]<br />[[Susan Shaw]]<br />[[Petula Clark]]
| music          = [[Antony Hopkins]]
| cinematography = [[Reginald H. Wyer]]
| editing        = [[Gordon Hales]]
| studio         = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor    = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released       = 24 November 1948  
| runtime        = 93 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
|budget = £100,000<ref name="box">[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sY1LGFNtCOEC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=sydney+box+film+producer&source=bl&ots=F02E_WOkLo&sig=bTwtFh0NIsHllgPcTGLkovJObNU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmkt78sr_MAhXltIMKHcEYCX0Q6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=sydney%20box%20film%20producer&f=false Andrew Spicer, ''Sydney Box'' Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 210]</ref>
|gross = £127,000<ref name="box"/>
}}

'''''Here Come the Huggetts''''' is a 1948 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]], the first of the [[The Huggetts (film series)|Huggetts series]], about a [[w:working class|working class]] English family. All three films in the series were directed by [[w:Ken Annakin|Ken Annakin]] and released by [[w:Gainsborough Pictures|Gainsborough Pictures]].<ref>HERE COME THE HUGGETTS
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 16, Iss. 181,  (Jan 1, 1949): 2.</ref>

[[Jack Warner (actor)|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.<ref>{{Citation
  | title=Pix
  | publication-date=1938
  | publisher=Associated Newspapers Limited
  | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-468508659
  | access-date=21 April 2019
}}</ref>

Joe and Ethel had been introduced a year earlier in the film ''[[Holiday Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]]'' and there would be two sequels, ''[[Vote for Huggett]]'' and ''[[The Huggetts Abroad]]'' (both 1949).

==Plot==
Factory worker Joe Huggett has a first-time telephone installed at home, for work purposes, but his daughters quickly find a lot more use for it. Diana, a flighty cousin of Ethel's (played by a 16-year-old [[Diana Dors]]), arrives for a not-very-welcome visit and causes problems at home and at Joe's workplace when Ethel persuades Joe to get her a job there. Eldest daughter Jane must choose between her fiancé who has been away in the forces and a new local admirer. Meanwhile, the family is planning to go to London to see the [[Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh|royal wedding]], and Grandma Huggett joins them in camping out overnight near [[Buckingham Palace]].

Clark, who began her career as a child vocalist on [[BBC Radio]], sings the song "Walking Backwards".

==Cast==
* [[Jack Warner (actor)|Jack Warner]] as Joe Huggett
* [[Kathleen Harrison]] as Ethel Huggett
* [[Jane Hylton]] as Jane Huggett
* [[Susan Shaw]] as Susan Huggett
* [[Petula Clark]] as Pet Huggett
* [[Jimmy Hanley]] as Jimmy Gardner
* [[David Tomlinson]] as Harold Hinchley
* [[Diana Dors]] as Diana Hopkins
* [[Peter Hammond (actor)|Peter Hammond]] as Peter Hawtrey
* [[John Blythe (actor)|John Blythe]] as Gowan
* [[Amy Veness]] as Grandma Huggett
* [[Clive Morton]] as Mr. Campbell
* [[Maurice Denham]] as 1st Engineer
* [[Doris Hare]] as Mrs. Fisher
* [[Esma Cannon]] as Youth Leader
* [[Alison Leggatt]] as 	Miss Perks
* [[Dandy Nichols]] as	Aunt Edie
* [[Hal Osmond]] as 2nd Engineer
*  Peter Scott as Office Boy
*  Keith Shepherd as Vicar
* [[Edmundo Ros]] as Himself (as Edmundo Ros and His Rhumba Band)

==Production==
Filming took place in June 1948. The working title was ''Wedding Bells''.<ref>Sonia Dresdel opens the large Tory Rally
Date: Friday,  June 18, 1948
Publication: Essex Newsman (Chelmsford, England) Issue: 4325 page 2</ref>

Film reviewer Stephen Vagg described the film as a breakthrough role for Diana Dors, who played Ma Huggett's niece.<ref name="bomb">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=A Tale of Two Blondes: Diana Dors and Belinda Lee|date=September 7, 2020|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/a-tale-of-two-blondes-diana-dors-and-belinda-lee/}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0040431}}
*[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ac27235 Here Come the Huggetts] at BFI
*[https://archive.org/stream/variety172-1948-12#page/n65/mode/2up Review of film] at ''Variety''

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[[Category:Gainsborough Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Ken Annakin]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Muriel Box]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Sydney Box]]
[[Category:Films produced by Betty Box]]
[[Category:Films scored by Antony Hopkins]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Peter Rogers]]
[[Category:Islington Studios films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:1948 comedy films]]
[[Category:The Huggetts (film series)]]
[[Category:1940s British films]]