No Surrender (film)

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No Surrender
Directed by	Peter Smith
Produced by	Mamoun Hassan
Written by	Alan Bleasdale
Starring	Michael Angelis Avis Bunnage James Ellis Bernard Hill Joanne Whalley Ray McAnally Pete Price
Music by	Daryl Runswick
Distributed by	Circle Films US Palace Pictures/Video UK
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
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No Surrender is a 1985 comedy film starring Michael Angelis and James Ellis.

The film is set in Liverpool on New Year's Eve. The plot focuses on two Irish characters in their very different communities. One is an ex-hit man (Protestant), the other a night-club manager (Catholic) who finds himself working for a very dangerous employer. The previous manager has left a lunatic legacy: hiring out the same hall for New Year's Eve to three groups of senior citizens, one hardline Irish Catholic Nationalists dressed in costume, one hardline Protestant Unionists and one of uninvolved, elderly, rather addled pensioners, who don't understand what is going on. The Catholics and Protestants recall their skirmishes and sing provocative songs to each other.

As a coup de grace, he hires a skittish, incompetent magician, played by Elvis Costello, to perform. Bernard Hill plays the club doorman who is ex French Foreign Legion. 194 Radio City DJ Pete Price starred in this film as a comedian by the name of Frankie Diamond.