Love on the Dole

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Deborah Kerr

Sally

Age : 86 | Popularity : 17%

Clifford Evans

Larry

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

George Carney

Mr. Hardcastle

Age : 60 | Popularity : 3%

Mary Merrall

Mrs. Hardcastle

Age : 86 | Popularity : 4%

Geoffrey Hibbert

Harry

Age : 48 | Popularity : 3%

Joyce Howard

Helen

Age : 88 | Popularity : 3%

Frank Cellier

Sam Grundy

Age : 64 | Popularity : 3%

Martin Walker

Ned Narkey

Age : 54 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Michael C. Chorlton
Sound	Music	Roy Douglas Muir Mathieson
	Original Music Composer	Richard Addinsell
Production	Producer	John Baxter
Writing	Novel	Walter Greenwood
	Theatre Play	Ronald Gow
	Writer	Rollo Gamble Barbara K. Emary
	Adaptation	Walter Greenwood
Directing	Director	John Baxter
Camera	Director of Photography	James Wilson
Department	Role	Name

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