Acclaimed writer Alan Bleasdale’s No Surrender is one of the great British comedies of the 1980s and it finally comes to DVD for the first time.
Scripted by The Boys From The Blackstuff writer Bleasdale the film re-unites fellow Blackstuff stars Michael Angelis (The Liver Birds, Bleasdale’s GBH, the voice of Thomas The Tank Engine), Bernard Hill (Titanic, The Lord Of The Rings), and James Ellis (Z-Cars), who star alongside Joanne Whalley (44 Inch Chest, The Singing Detective) and the late Ray MacNally (My Left Foot, Empire State).
No Surrender will be released on 25 July 2011 courtesy of Second Sight Films.
The film takes place at The Charleston in Liverpool, a seedy nightclub run by the local gangland boss. The new manager has arrived and his predecessor, a practical joker, has left a host of atrocious cabaret acts for the New Year’s Eve bash. A band that can’t play, a magician with a dead rabbit and, to top off the night, two coach parties of rival
OAPs arrive, one devout Catholic social club complete with a drunken blind ex-boxer, and an equally boisterous group of Protestant revelers. When they get together mayhem ensues…
