No Surrender is a 1985 British comedy film, starring Michael Angelis and Ray McAnally. The film is a black comedy, set in Liverpool on New Year's Eve. The plot focuses on the Irish Catholic and Protestant communities in the city, and the action is seen through the eyes of the manager of a ballroom in a rough working class area. The manager is of Greek origin and new to the job. He finds out that the previous manager has left a lunatic legacy; before coming to a grisly end, he arranged an elaborate joke on his organised crime employers. He has hired out the hall for New Year's Eve to... several groups of senior citizens, including one hardline Irish Catholic Nationalists dressed in costume, one hardline Protestant Unionists and one of people suffering from mental retardation and senile dementia. As a coup de grace, he has also hired a skittish, incompetent magician, played by Elvis Costello, to perform. Bernard Hill plays the club doorman who is ex French Foreign Legion. DJ Pete Price plays a comedian by the name of Frankie Diamond.
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| Release date: | September 12, 1985 |
| Directed by: | Peter Smith |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mamoun Hassan |
| Editor: | Kevin Brownlow, Rodney Holland |
| Music by: | Daryl Runswick |
| Cinematography: | Michael Coulter |
| Screenplay by: | Alan Bleasdale |
| Genre: | Comedy |