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 (night-club for hire) in a rough working class area. The manager (Michael Angelis) is of Greek origin (which leads to some disparaging jokes about 'keb...
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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 (night-club for hire) in a rough working class area. The manager (Michael Angelis) is of Greek origin (which leads to some disparaging jokes about 'kebab and chips') 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...
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