The Huggetts Abroad

The Huggetts Abroad

Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Betty E. Box
Starring	Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Susan Shaw Petula Clark
Music by	Antony Hopkins
Cinematography	Reginald H. Wyer
Edited by	Gordon Hales
Release dates	1949 (1949)
Running time	89 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£113,000 (by 1953)^[1]

The Huggetts Abroad is a 1949 British film starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Susan Shaw. It was the final film of The Huggetts. The film was less commercially successful than its predecessors. A sequel, Christmas with the Huggetts, was planned but never made.

Plot

After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa, travelling via a land route that takes them across Africa. On their journey they become entangled with a diamond smuggler.

Cast

Jack Warner as Joe Huggett
Kathleen Harrison as Ethel Huggett
Susan Shaw as Susan Huggett
Petula Clark as Pet Huggett
Dinah Sheridan as Jane Huggett
Hugh McDermott as Bob McCoy
Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner
Peter Hammond as Peter Hawtrey
John Blythe as Gowan
Amy Veness as Grandma Huggett
Peter Illing as Algerian Detective
Frith Banbury as French Doctor
Olaf Pooley as Straker
Esma Cannon as Brown Owl
Sheila Raynor as Woman with Straker

External links

The Huggetts Abroad at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Trio (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

Films produced by Gainsborough Pictures

The "Gainsborough melodramas"	The Man in Grey (1943) Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944) Fanny by Gaslight (1944) The Wicked Lady (1945) Caravan (1946) Jassy (1947)

Other	The Passionate Adventure (1924) The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Blighty (1927) The Constant Nymph (1928) The First Born (1928) The Return of the Rat (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Night in Montmartre (1931) Hindle Wakes (1931) Jack's the Boy (1932) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Wild Boy (1934) My Old Dutch (1934) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Doctor Syn (1937) Strange Boarders (1938) The Ghost Train (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) Uncensored (1942) Bees in Paradise (1944) Time Flies (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) Two Thousand Women (1944) Love Story (1944) Waterloo Road (1945) A Place of One's Own (1945) They Were Sisters (1945) The Magic Bow (1946) The Root of All Evil (1947) Dear Murderer (1947) Easy Money (1948) Miranda (1948) My Brother's Keeper (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) It's Not Cricket (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Marry Me! (1949) Christopher Columbus (1949)

↑ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211

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