"Who wrote ""Love on The Dole""?"
Love on the Dole (film) Love on the Dole (film) 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. The film is set in Hanky Park, part of Salford, at the height of the Great Depression. The film was the first English made feature film to show English police wielding batons against the crowd. In a contemporary review, "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote "Here is a film that ranks with the best we have ever produced.. The direction is excellent, the photography admirable, and the
Love on the Dole a policeman's truncheon. After Larry Meath's death, Sally despondently succumbs to the attentions of Sam Grundy, which allows both her father and brother finally to find work. The novel received much attention from writers, journalists, and politicians, who were all moved by its description of poverty, but, more importantly, by its account of a working-class community attempting to deal with that poverty with dignity and intelligence. Reviewing the American edition of the novel, Iris Barry wrote that, ""Love on the Dole" is the real thing." Edith Sitwell, for example, also wrote "I do not know when I have been so