Love on the Dole is a 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans.

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

Mr Hardcastle is a coalminer; his son, Harry, is an apprentice at a local engineering firm and Sally, his daughter, works at a cotton mill.

At his father's suggestion, he takes his girlfriend Helen to the seaside resort of Blackpool on a holiday.

The family’s plight is made worse by reductions in means tested unemployment benefits (the dole), whilst Helen's unexpected pregnancy causes further tensions.