I_ove_O№_the_DoI_e1941 / part 1

I_ove_O№_the_DoI_e is 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans . It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood . The Walter Greenwood's novel (1933 ) was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally.It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford , where Greenwood was born and brought up. It has been made into both a play and a film. The book begins around the time of the General Strike of 1926, but its main action takes place in 1931.The novel follows the Hardcastle family as they are pulled apart by mass unemployment. 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. The novel was adapted for the stage by Ronald Gow , and opened at the Manchester Repertory Theatre in 1934, with Wendy Hiller as Sally Hardcastle. The 'real' speech and contemporary social themes were new to British audiences.It toured Britain with two separate companies, playing up to three performances a day, sometimes in cinemas in towns which had no theatre.A million people had seen it by the end of 1935. I_ove_O№_the_DoI_e drew the British public's attention to a social problem in the UK in a similar way that Look Back in Anger , Cathy Come Home or Boys from the Blackstuff would do for future generations (although its style is closer to Hobson's Choice ). Although the book and play were successful, the British Board of Film Censors would not allow a film to be made during the 1930s: it was a "very sordid story in very sordid surroundings", and in Gow's words "regarded as 'dangerous'". It was eventually filmed and released in 1941 by British National Films with Deborah Kerr as Sally. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/485682/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

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[jazzfan19605]

You've brightened my day. From one Deborah Kerr fan to another: THANK YOU!

[MrAnticensor2]

@jazzfan19605 I am happy to do it!:)))

[2legit64]

Wow! Interesting movie. The theme is quite timely in some ways. I'm also a Deborah Kerr fan who is grateful that you put this movie on Youtube. Thank you. I can now check it off in my quest to see all of her movies. By the end of the weekend, I will have seen 20 in four weeks! How's that for being an uber fan?  LOL!

[kevinastraw]

Was Kerr ever more beautiful than this! Yet she fits into the social context wonderfully. The only thing that does not is the soaring strings!