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.

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  John Baxter

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  Deborah Kerr
  Sally
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  Clifford Evans
  Larry
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  George Carney
  Mr. Hardcastle
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  Mary Merrall
  Mrs. Hardcastle
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  Geoffrey Hibbert
  Harry
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  Joyce Howard
  Helen
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  Frank Cellier
  Sam Grundy
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  Martin Walker
  Ned Narkey
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  Maire O'Neill
  Mrs. Dorbell
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  Iris Vandeleur
  Mrs. Nattle
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  Marie Ault
  Mrs. Jike
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  Marjorie Rhodes
  Mrs. Bull
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  Sebastian Cabot
  Man in Crowd at Betting Payout
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  Terry Conlin
  Ted Munter
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  A. Bromley Davenport
  Pawnbroker
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  Peter Gawthorne
  Police Supt
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  Muriel George
  Landlady
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  Philip Godfrey
  Charlie - Sam Grundy's Assistant
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  Kenneth Griffith
  Harry's Pal in Billiard Hall
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  Charles Groves
  Old Man