Love on the Dole

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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.

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Creators

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John Baxter

director

Walter Greenwood

writer

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Ronald Gow

writer

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Barbara K. Emary

writer

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Rollo Gamble

writer

Cast

Deborah Kerr actor Clifford Evans actor George Carney actor

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Mary Merrall actor

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Geoffrey Hibbert actor

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Joyce Howard actor

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Frank Cellier actor

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Martin Walker actor

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Maire O'Neill actor

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Iris Vandeleur actor

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Marie Ault actor

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Marjorie Rhodes actor Sebastian Cabot actor

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Terry Conlin actor

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A. Bromley Davenport actor

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Peter Gawthorne actor

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Muriel George actor

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Philip Godfrey actor Kenneth Griffith actor

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Charles Groves actor