Love on the Dole

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.

• Barbara K. EmaryWriter
• Rollo GambleWriter
• Richard AddinsellOriginal Music Composer
• John BaxterDirector

• Deborah KerrSally
• Clifford EvansLarry
• George CarneyMr. Hardcastle
• Mary MerrallMrs. Hardcastle
• Geoffrey HibbertHarry
• Joyce HowardHelen
• Frank CellierSam Grundy
• Martin WalkerNed Narkey
• Maire O'NeillMrs. Dorbell
• Iris VandeleurMrs. Nattle
• Marie AultMrs. Jike
• Marjorie RhodesMrs. Bull