The Huggetts Abroad

1949
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1h 29m

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A family makes a lengthy and fraught journey across South Africa by truck when their son-in-law gets a job in the country.A family makes a lengthy and fraught journey across South Africa by truck when their son-in-law gets a job in the country.A family makes a lengthy and fraught journey across South Africa by truck when their son-in-law gets a job in the country.

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Trivia
The last of the Huggett films. A sequel, "Christmas with the Huggetts", was planned but never made.

Goofs
Mrs Huggett who had been soaking wet seconds earlier gets in the house and apart from a few drops on the shoulders of her coat she's bone dry.

Crazy credits
[Following the opening credits, the following disclaimer]: The Huggett Family, which made its screen debut in "Holiday Camp", appears again in this film.

Since the name of the family was chosen it has been brought to our notice that a Mr. and Mrs. Vane Huggett and their family made a trek across Africa, subsequently returning to England.

This film does not relate to Mr. and Mrs. Vane Huggett and their family and is not in any way based on their experiences.

On the contrary, all characters and events are fictitious.

Any similarity to actual events, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Connections
Follows Holiday Camp (1947)

Soundtracks
House in the Sky
Music by Peter Hart
Lyrics by Jack Fishman
Sung by Petula Clark (uncredited)

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6/10

The Huggetts on Safari

The title of the last gasp of the Huggett series (Gainsborough Pictures itself soon followed later the same year) lead me to expect comic frolics abroad like 'Carry On Abroad', but it turns out to be a fairly rugged adventure film, albeit constructed around the Huggett family, with actual desert footage directed by editor Alan Osbiston surprisingly effectively integrated with studio-shot scenes of the Huggetts themselves. (Did emigrants to South Africa really get there in the late forties by trekking across the Sahara?)

Esma Cannon, who was murdered in the original 'Holiday Camp', surprisingly pops up briefly in a completely different role in this film as Petula Clark's scoutmistress.