Movielogr
Love on the Dole (1941)
Directed by John Baxter
Overview
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Deborah Kerr | Clifford Evans | George Carney | Mary Merrall | Geoffrey Hibbert | Joyce Howard | Frank Cellier | Martin Walker | Maire O'Neill | Iris Vandeleur | Marie Ault | Marjorie Rhodes | Sebastian Cabot | Terry Conlin | A. Bromley Davenport | Peter Gawthorne | Muriel George | Philip Godfrey | Kenneth Griffith | Charles Groves | James Harcourt | Mike Johnson | Vi Kaley | Jordan Lawrence | Yvonne Mitchell | Brefni O'Rorke | Leonard Sharp | John Slater | H Victor Weske | Ben Williams | Ian Wilson | Dennis Wyndham