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The Call for Arms

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Brian Desmond Hurst

Language
  
English

Writer
  
Rodney Ackland
,
Terence Young

Release date
  
1940 (1940)

A Call For Arms was a short propaganda film made for the British Ministry of Information in 1940. It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starred Jean Gillie and Rene Ray as two 'nudes' (showgirls) who do their bit for the war effort by going to work in munition factories. It was co-written by a Sgt. Terence Young who worked for Hurst on many projects before, during and after WW2.

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Plot

The film opens with the two showgirls coming across a collapsed munitions worker outside the theatre door. "Twelve hour shifts take it out of some of these young 'uns" observes a nearby news-seller. Alongside a billboard gets the message across "Latest War News. Bigger Arms, Speed up. Go For It". The plots follows one of the showgirls signing up at the Labour Exchange for munitions work and tracks her working day. Seeing her friend exhausted the other showgirl signs up. "We've got to win the war you know".

Cast

  • Jean Gillie as Irene
  • Rene Ray as Joan
  • Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. James

    • References

    A Call for Arms (1940 film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Call for Arms IMDb