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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 fart…
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The Huggetts Abroad
68%
Movie
1h 29m
AI Analysis
The Huggetts Abroad (1949) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The Huggetts Abroad (1949) — a movie tagged as Comedy with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: 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. Our models also surface themes such as family from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~89 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate The Huggetts Abroad 68% (6 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
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.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1949-03-21
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- TMDB rating
- 6.8
- TMDB ID
- 240673
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Cast
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
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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 together, 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.
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