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Oct 8, 2011 · Reviewer: Root beer 63 - favorite favorite - June 29, 2024 Subject: Luv o da dole So they be on da WELFARE Reviewer: gorsecabin - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 23, 2020 Subject: Thank You!
The camera's facility in pin-pointing the tenets of tragedy has been harnessed in Love on the Dole. ... Sepia tintage heightens the gloom of film’s representation of a North of England community.
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 ...
Love on the Dole is a strange film to emerge during the darkest days of the Second World War, dealing as it does with the Depression, mass unemployment, poverty, pre-marital pregnancy, riots and prostitution - not exactly an uplifting, patriotic film. Most contemporary films were either propagandist or escapist fare: comedies and romances.
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 family who are unemployed.
I just watched the Jef Films transfer of "Love on the Dole." The video has a nice contrast and a good overall picture. The dialogue was difficult to understand, mainly because of the British accent and fast talking, but also because the audio and video are not precisely synced.
Love on the Dole(1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, Walter Greenwo...
