LOVE ON THE DOLE
« (Warners British)
T took at least two years and a great deal of controversy to bring this film about the Depression in Great Brit-
ain to New Zealand-opbut if was worth the effort, for this is the British film industry’s nearest equivalent to The Grapes of Wrath. It is a moving, . intelligent, excellently acted tale ofthe Lancashire underdog; his cheerful acceptance of an_ industrial existence that provides few of the amenities of life and his embittered questioning when the economic system turns against him and deprives him of even those scraps of comfort." John Baxter has directed with his heart as well as his head: the result is drama with the breath of life in it. The Hard. castles of Hankey Park are, in their way, as memorable, tragic, and disturbing as the Joads of Oklahoma. (continued on next page)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 15
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148LOVE ON THE DOLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 235, 24 December 1943, Page 15
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