Released
Love on the Dole
June 28 1941 (over 83 years ago)Rating
Based on
12 reviews
- 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.