Love on the Dole

Duration: 94 min

Release date: 1941-06-28

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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.

Drama

Love on the Dole

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as Mr. Hardcastle

as Mrs. Hardcastle

Geoffrey Hibbert

Geoffrey Hibbert

as Mrs. Dorbell

Marjorie Rhodes

Marjorie Rhodes

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

as Man in Crowd at Betting Payout

A. Bromley Davenport

A. Bromley Davenport

Peter Gawthorne

Peter Gawthorne

as Charlie - Sam Grundy's Assistant

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

as Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall

as Old Man Who Has His Dole Stopped

as Man at Demonstration

as 4th Old Lady at Seance

Jordan Lawrence

Jordan Lawrence

Yvonne Mitchell

Yvonne Mitchell

as Factory Worker at Gate

as Dole Officer

as Man at Demonstration

as Agitator on Demonstration

as Factory Worker

as Factory Worker

as Man at Demonstration

as Jim - Larry's Assistant

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Walter Greenwood

Walter Greenwood

Walter Greenwood

Walter Greenwood

Richard Addinsell

Richard Addinsell

Original Music Composer

Barbara K. Emary

Barbara K. Emary

Michael C. Chorlton

Michael C. Chorlton

Director of Photography

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