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Love on the Dole

1941 · 1h 34m · Drama · United Kingdom

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.

Directed by
John Baxter
Written by
Barbara K. Emary, Rollo Gamble
Based on the novel by
Walter Greenwood
Starring
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall
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