1941
5.7 (12 votes)
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
British National Films
Love on the Dole
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.
Key Crew
Producer: John Baxter
Writer: Barbara K. Emary, Rollo Gamble
Director: John Baxter
Director of Photography: James Wilson
