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Love on the Dole (1941)

Love on the Dole (1941)

Drama
Release Date: 1941, June 28
Directors: John Baxter
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: British National Films
Cast: Mike Johnson, Ian Wilson, Sebastian Cabot, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Wyndham, Kenneth Griffith, Frank Cellier, Ben Williams, Maire O'Neill, John Slater, Joyce Howard, Clifford Evans

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.