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Love on the Dole

This bleak yet humorous British social drama examines unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. A 20-year-old Deborah Kerr delivers an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, a cotton worker trying to improve life amid hardship. Interlaced with humor that brightens the pervasive bleakness, it remains a powerful study of interwar life and a rare problem picture from Britain at the time.

Original title
Love on the Dole
Genre
Drama
Director
John Baxter
Cast
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
Country
United Kingdom
Studios
British National Films
Language
en
Year
1941
Duration
94
Release date
1941-06-28
TMDB
5.900 · 16 votes
Status
Released

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