Love on the Dole (film)

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) (US)
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.[1] It was the first English-made feature film to show English police wielding batons against a crowd.[2]

  1. ^ "British Film Institute: Love on the Dole (1941)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 August 2017.
  2. ^ Emsley, Clive (2005). Hard Men: The English and Violence since 1750. London: Hambledon. p. 141. ISBN 1852855029.