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Love on the Dole

June 28 1941 (over 83 years ago)
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  • Director: John Baxter
  • Genre: Drama
  • Runtime: 1 h 34 m
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Company: British National Films

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.