Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole
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.
Cast
Deborah Kerr
Clifford Evans
George Carney
Mary Merrall
Geoffrey Hibbert
Joyce Howard
Frank Cellier
Martin Walker
Maire O'Neill
Iris Vandeleur
Marie Ault
Marjorie Rhodes
Sebastian Cabot
Terry Conlin
A. Bromley Davenport
Peter Gawthorne
Muriel George
Philip Godfrey
Kenneth Griffith
Charles Groves
James Harcourt
Mike Johnson
Vi Kaley
Jordan Lawrence
Yvonne Mitchell
Brefni O'Rorke
Leonard Sharp
John Slater
H Victor Weske
Ben Williams
Ian Wilson
Dennis Wyndham
Crew
John Baxter
Walter Greenwood
Ronald Gow
Walter Greenwood
Barbara K. Emary
Rollo Gamble
