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 directed by John Baxter and starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted by Walter Greenwood, Barbara K. Emary and Rollo Gamble from the 1934 play by Ronald Gow based on Greenwood's 1933 novel of the same name. It was the first English-made feature film to show English police wielding batons against a crowd. It is the best known film by Baxter and one of the best known from British National Pictures.

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