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Love on the Dole
DVD cover
Directed byJohn Baxter
Written byWalter Greenwood (novel and adaptation)
Ronald Gow (play)
Barbara K. Emary
Rollo Gamble
Produced byJohn Baxter
StarringDeborah Kerr
Clifford Evans
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byMichael C. Chorlton
Music byRichard Addinsell
Orchestrated, Roy Douglas
Direction, Muir Mathieson
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
United Artists (USA)
Release dates
  • 28 June 1941 (1941-06-28) (UK)
  • 12 October 1945 (1945-10-12) (U.S.)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot summary

The film is set in Hanky Park, a fictional settlement based on Salford, at the height of the Great Depression.

The film was the first English made feature film to show English police wielding batons against the crowd.[1]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Emsley, Clive. Hard Men : The English and Violence since 1750. London: Hambledon and London, 2005, p. 141.