Westward Ho! (1940 film)

Westward Ho!
Directed byThorold Dickinson
Written byThorold Dickinson[1]
Narrated byDonald Bull
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Edited bySidney Cole
Production
company
Release date
  • 1940 (1940)
Running time
8 min. 23 sec.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£450[2]

Westward Ho! is a 1940 British public information film about the evacuation of children during the Second World War, directed by Thorold Dickinson. At the time, evacuation was a controversial policy, and the film was produced with the aim of building support for it. Westward Ho! was the first of a series of five-minute propaganda films distributed weekly to cinemas between 1940 and 1942.

  1. ^ James Chapman (1998). The British at War: Cinema, State, and Propaganda, 1939–1945. I.B. Tauris Publishers. ISBN 9781860641589.
  2. ^ Richards, Jeffrey (1986). Thorold Dickinson: the Man and His Films. London: Croom Helm. p. 86. ISBN 9780709922933.