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Holiday Camp

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6.1/10 • 9

1947-08-051h 37m

Comedy

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

Directors
Ken Annakin
Editors
Alfred Roome

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  1. Flora Robson

    Flora Robson

    Esther Harman

  2. Dennis Price

    Dennis Price

    Sq. Ldr. Hardwick

  3. Jack Warner

    Jack Warner

    Joe Huggett

  4. Kathleen Harrison

    Kathleen Harrison

    Mrs. Ethel Huggett

  5. Hazel Court

    Hazel Court

    Joan Huggett

  6. Yvonne Owen

    Yvonne Owen

    Angela Kirby

  7. Esmond Knight

    Esmond Knight

    Camp Announcer

  8. Jimmy Hanley

    Jimmy Hanley

    Jimmy Gardner

  9. Peter Hammond

    Peter Hammond

    Harry Huggett

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CinemaSerf

Jul 7, 2022

7/10

I can safely say that I have never been to an holiday camp - the BBC series "Hi-Di-HI" that ran in the UK in the 1980s always made sure that never happened. By then, though, we had international travel at our fingertips. In the late 1940s, people were still having their food rationed let alone being able to hop on a flight to Florida or Fuerteventura. The "Huggetts" - led by Jack Warner and the indomitable Kathleen Harrison take their family to one such camp for, ostensibly, a nice rest. Ha, well good luck with that - before long they are involved in dodgy card games, and absconded pair of expectant teenagers and a fleeing murderer. (You wonder why i never fancied such places?) The Huggetts were a famous cinema family in the 1940s, their decency and family values imbued well by the strong, likeable cast. Usually their efforts were all augmented by some guest stars - and here, with the rather lonely figure of Flora Robson and the distinctly caddish Dennis Price, is no different. It resonates now, as ever, because it is about ordinary people - not wealthy or profligate, just folks trying to keep their lives afloat after the war and there is plenty of pithy, quick witted comedy that, though dated and a little too stereotyped for 60 years on, is still enjoyable to watch.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
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