A Call for Arms!

A Call for Arms!

Year: 1940

Runtime: 8 mins

Language: English

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Drama

Two revue dancers, Joan and Ireen, are urged by Lord Kitchener’s pointing gesture to abandon their skimpy ‘Non‑Stop Nudes’ costumes for munitions‑factory overalls, joining the women keeping wartime production rolling. Directed by Belfast‑born Brian Desmond Hurst, later known for Scrooge, Dangerous Moonlight and The Malta Story, it is one of three 1940‑41 propaganda shorts that includes Miss Grant Goes to the Door.

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