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May 1949 (UK) morePlot:
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... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Rather slow nostalgia trip more (2 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Warner | ... | Joe Huggett |
| Kathleen Harrison | ... | Ethel Huggett |
| Susan Shaw | ... | Susan Huggett |
| Petula Clark | ... | Pet Huggett |
 | Dinah Sheridan | ... | Jane Huggett |
| Hugh McDermott | ... | Bob McCoy |
| Jimmy Hanley | ... | Jimmy Gardner |
| Peter Hammond | ... | Peter Hawtrey |
| John Blythe | ... | Gowan |
| Amy Veness | ... | Grandma Huggett |
| Peter Illing | ... | Algerian Detective |
| Frith Banbury | ... | French Doctor |
| Olaf Pooley | ... | Straker |
| Esma Cannon | ... | Brown Owl |
| Philo Hauser | ... | Egyptian |
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If you remember the Huggets then probably this film is for you. It follows the family attempting to escape from austerity England to South Africa, and getting caught up in some diamond smuggling along the way.
The plot is paper thin (so much so that it almost disappears at one point), and the direction moves in fits and starts, but if you're feeling nostalgic for the days when we believed in the stereotypes for foreigners because we had no experience to teach us better, then you'll like this. Interestingly enough, the only out and out baddie in the film is another Englishman - even the Canadian diamond smuggler is a lovable rogue.
The film is made palatable for me, however, by Jack Warner, who despite playing more or less the same character as his subsequent Dixon of Dock Green (and The Blue Lamp) police sergeant, exudes an irresistible avuncular warmth, and Pet Clark, whose bubbly performance helps raise the rest of the family out of the mire that an uninspired screenplay tries to put them. She also gets to sing, though you'd never believe this little girl is the same as she who sang Downtown.