Love on the Dole
94 mins
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.
Geoffrey Hibbert
Harry
Iris Vandeleur
Mrs. Nattle
Terry Conlin
Ted Munter
Philip Godfrey
Charlie - Sam Grundy's Assistant
Mike Johnson
Man at Demonstration
Jordan Lawrence
Sam Hardie
Leonard Sharp
Man at Demonstration
H Victor Weske
Factory Worker
Ben Williams
Factory Worker
Walter Greenwood
Novel
Ronald Gow
Theatre Play
John Baxter
Producer
Barbara K. Emary
Writer
Roy Douglas
Music
Walter Greenwood
Adaptation
Muir Mathieson
Music
Michael C. Chorlton
Editor
Rollo Gamble
Writer
John Baxter
Director
James Wilson
Director of Photography