A Call for Arms!

Synopsis

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.

Main Cast

Jean Gillie

Irene

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rène Ray

Joan

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Kathleen Harrison

Mrs. James

Age : 103 | Popularity : 33%

Colleen Nolan

Forewoman

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Vi Kaley

Newswoman

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Crew	Cinematography	Bernard Browne
Directing	Director	Brian Desmond Hurst
	Assistant Director	Rodney Ackland
Writing	Story	Terence Young Brian Desmond Hurst
	Writer	Rodney Ackland
Editing	Editor	Ralph Kemplen
Sound	Sound	A.W. Watkins
Department	Role	Name

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