Love On The Dole (1941) 1080p | Deborah Kerr

Drama | UK | B&W | 98min Cast: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier During the Depression in 1930 Salford, in the North of England, young Harry Hardcastle (Geoffrey Hibbert) and his sister, Sally (Deborah Kerr), fall victim to poverty and unemployment, and are forced to make difficult decisions to survive. Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole was one of the most controversial British films of its time, having been banned from production in the mid-1930s by the British Board of Film Censors and labelled a ‘very sordid story in very sordid surroundings’. It was eventually made in 1941 at a time when the Second World War had radically altered the country's social conditions and attitudes. But it would be another four years before the film could be released in America due to the Production Code Censors.