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Love on the Dole (1941)
Directed by John Baxter
Drama · 1h 34m
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
Deborah Kerr
Clifford Evans
George Carney
Mary Merrall
Geoffrey Hibbert
Joyce Howard
Frank Cellier
Martin Walker
Maire O'Neill
Marie Ault
Marjorie Rhodes
Crew
- Director
- John Baxter
- Writer
- Rollo Gamble, Barbara K. Emary
- Novel
- Walter Greenwood
- Director of Photography
- James Wilson
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Addinsell
- Editor
- Michael C. Chorlton
- Producer
- John Baxter
Details
- Release date
- 1941-06-28
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British National Films