Love on the Dole

1941

Action / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 682 682

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Plot summary

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.

Director

John Baxter Photo
John Baxter

Top cast

Peter Gawthorne Photo
Peter Gawthorne as Police Supt
Joyce Howard Photo
Joyce Howard as Helen Hawkins
Deborah Kerr Photo
Deborah Kerr as Sally Hardcastle
Marie Ault Photo
Marie Ault as Mrs. Jike
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699.38 MB
968*720
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 38 min
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1.47 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Interesting that this film was released literally days

Interesting that this film was released literally days after the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union- the point in which the whole of left was united behind the war effort. Based on a book by then 8 years old, this is a great Socialist Second World War propoganda film. This was made during the war, but set before it, but was really about what the world should be like after it. Set totally in the pre-war period, some pretty subversive and for and for many an uncomfortable point becomes clear to people watching this. Even in the grim days of 1941- life was better for many working class people than 1930s peactime- because at least you had work and food on your table, and the implication of this was the post war world had better not be like the 1930s. Working Class people, and the Left were not fighting to bring back the "England" of 1939, but something new, something better. Clearly this is not "This Happy Breed", "In Which We Serve", (or for that matter the post war "Chance of a Lifetime") which offered a more consensusual and comfortable view of "class". This is a demand for fairness for working people, not a vague statement that it's a nice idea. Also very different role than we are used to seeing from Deborah Kerr too, the star of the film- in a gritty role.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Almost doc like quality to this brit drama

almost doc like quality to this brit drama
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