Love on the Dole (1941)

Run Time: 1h34m | Release: 28 Jun 1941

Genres: Drama |

Production Countries: United Kingdom

5.7 / 1011 Vote Count

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.