| No Surrender | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Peter Smith |
| Written by | Alan Bleasdale |
| Produced by | Mamoun Hassan |
| Starring | Michael Angelis Bernard Hill Joanne Whalley Ray McAnally Elvis Costello |
| Cinematography | Mick Coulter |
| Edited by | Kevin Brownlow Rodney Holland |
| Music by | Daryl Runswick |
| Distributed by | Circle Films (US) Palace Pictures/Video (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2.34 million[1] |
No Surrender is a 1985 British comedy film written by Alan Bleasdale, directed by Peter Smith and produced by Mamoun Hassan.
Describing the commissioning process, Bleasdale said, "I went to the National Film Finance Corporation and told them I was never going to write Star Wars or Rambo Revisited or anything like that, so I just went ahead and wrote the film I wanted to write".[2]
The film is set in Liverpool during New Year's Eve. A man has been hired as the new manager of a function hall, and has to deal with the last arrangements made by his disgruntled predecessor. The hall has been simultaneously booked by rival groups of militant Catholics and Protestants, the entertainers hired for the night are inept and their acts are likely to infuriate the clients, and a marching band of the Orange Order starts playing sectarian tunes. When brawls break out within the hall, the manager has to find a way to defuse the situation.