Love on the Dole (1941)
1h 34m
Running Time
June 28, 1941Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Deborah Kerr
Sally Hardcastle
Clifford Evans
Larry Meath
George Carney
Mr. Hardcastle
Mary Merrall
Mrs. Hardcastle
Geoffrey Hibbert
Harry Hardcastle
Joyce Howard
Helen Hawkins
Frank Cellier
Sam Grundy
Martin Walker
Ned Narkey
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Dorbell
Iris Vandeleur
Mrs. Nattle
Marie Ault
Mrs. Jike
John Baxter
Director
Marjorie Rhodes
Mrs. Bull
Walter Greenwood
Writer
Sebastian Cabot
Man in Crowd at Betting Payout
Terry Conlin
Ted Munter
Ronald Gow
Writer
Barbara K. Emary
Writer
A. Bromley Davenport
Pawnbroker
Peter Gawthorne
Police Supt
Rollo Gamble
Writer
Muriel George
Landlady
Richard Addinsell
Composer
Philip Godfrey
Charlie - Sam Grundy's Assistant
Kenneth Griffith
Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall
James Wilson
Cinematographer
Charles Groves
Old Man
Michael C. Chorlton
Editor
James Harcourt
Old Man Who Has His Dole Stopped
Mike Johnson
Man at Demonstration
Vi Kaley
4th Old Lady at Seance
Jordan Lawrence
Sam Hardie
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Love on the Dole is a 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood. It was the first English-made feature film to show English police wielding batons against a crowd.