A Call For Arms is a short propaganda film made for the British Ministry of Information in 1940.

[1] 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.

Terence Young who worked for Hurst on many projects before, during and after World War II.

[citation needed] 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.