Love on the Dole

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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

94 minutes

Year:

1941

Director:

John Baxter

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Company:

British National Films

Cast:

Sally

Larry

Mr. Hardcastle

Mrs. Hardcastle

Harry

Crew:

Producer

Novel

Theatre Play

Adaptation

Writer