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Love on the Dole

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Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Cast & crew

Clifford Evans · Mary Merrall · Iris Vandeleur · Barbara K. Emary · Walter Greenwood · Geoffrey Hibbert · Frank Cellier · Rollo Gamble · John Baxter · Maire O'Neill · Deborah Kerr · Joyce Howard · Martin Walker · George Carney

Studios & networks

British National Films