The first movie to feature the Huggett family. They proved to be so popular with post-wartime audiences that three more movies featuring them followed.
This movie became the sixth biggest hit at the box office in the British Isles in 1947. It made a profit of sixteen thousand pounds sterling (five hundred fifty-four thousand pounds in 2019 prices using the GDP deflator) according to financial records for the Rank Organization.
Esmond Knight, who plays the blind Camp Announcer, was blinded for two years by injuries sustained while serving on H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the engagement with the Bismarck in 1941.
Jean Kent was originally slated to appear in this movie, but had to bow out after she contracted flu on the inhospitably cold locations.
Whilst being set in the summer, it was filmed in the winter in the early part of 1947.