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Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel
- Ronald Gow, Walter Greenwood
- 1933
Love on the Dole: Directed by John Baxter. With Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall. During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
- (604)
- Drama
- John Baxter
- 1945-10-12
Love on the Dole is a 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood . [1] It was the first English-made feature film to show English police wielding batons against a crowd.
Love on the Dole centres on the Hardcastle family and their neighbours in Hanky Park,a poor part of Salford. Mr Hardcastle, a miner, Mrs Hardcastle a housewife and their children Harry and Sally along with their neighbours represent a working-class economy which was always fragile and was further damaged during the 1930's as a consequences of the Great Depression.
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- Paperback
- Walter Greenwood
Jan 18, 2016 · Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI.A classic 'blitz flick' about brave optimism in the face of great adversity, Love on the Dole (starring Deborah Ke...
Kerr is hardly the archetypical Lancashire mill-girl, but her mixture of coolness and fragility works surprisingly well in the scenes with the grumbling, bullying father she 'disgraces' and the ...
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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 ...
