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. It was the first English-made feature film to show English police wielding batons against a crowd.

Plot

It is 1930, at the height of the Great Depression. The Hardcastle family lives in Hanky Park, part of Salford. Mr Hardcastle is a coal miner; his son, Harry, is an apprentice at a local engineering firm and Sally, his daughter, works at a cotton mill.