Love on the Dole (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

John Baxter

Escritores:

Walter Greenwood (novel)
Ronald Gow (play)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 octubre 1945 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

During the depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress...

Plot Keywords:

1930s | Dole | Labor Union | Based On Play | Based On Novel

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Love on the Dole, on the Dole

Reparto

Deborah Kerr	...	Sally
Clifford Evans	...	Larry
George Carney	...	Mr. Hardcastle
Mary Merrall	...	Mrs. Hardcastle
Geoffrey Hibbert	...	Harry
Joyce Howard	...	Helen
Frank Cellier	...	Sam Grundy
Martin Walker	...	Ned Narkey
Maire O'Neill	...	Mrs. Dorbell
Iris Vandeleur	...	Mrs. Nattle
Marie Ault	...	Mrs. Jike
Marjorie Rhodes	...	Mrs. Bull

Duración:

94 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco (Sepia)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

UK:PG (video rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:A | USA:Approved (PCA #04039)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Compañía:

British National Films

Trivialidades:

First film of Yvonne Mitchell.

Citas:

Mrs. Hardcastle: Eee Sal, you've changed. You're 'ard.
Sally: Aye, I'm 'ard. And by gosh an' I need t'be.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Empire of the Censors (1995) (TV)

Love on the Dole, on the Dole

This is a typical BBC2 or Channel 4 afternoon offering: British, black and white, at least 40 years old and just what you'd watch if you are indeed on the dole.

It reminds me of This Happy Breed (1944), featuring working class people and their daily struggle for survival in a class-ridden society, only this time it's the Great Depression in the Welsh valleys. They face temptations, peer hostility if they do not conform to the norm, and total frustration (though in this case alleviated by a seaside visit to Blackpool, that epitome of Englishness).

It is actually a very political film, containing a violent clash between the unemployed demonstrators and the stubborn, violent police. Presumably the prime minister of the day - Winston Churchill - would have loved this film as he battered the workers himself a few times.

John Baxter, the director, was never a household name, probably because of his strange, expressionist editing which is unusual for any British film, let alone this offering from the war years. However, there are some advanced - for 1941 - special effects.

The film could have benefited from some outside, location shooting down in south Wales, too. Somewhere like Ferndale, perhaps.