There's No Business...

Jan 1, 1994

1h 15m

★ 9.0

Overview

There's No Business... is a 1994 British partially improvised comedy film directed by Kevin Molony and produced by Claudia Lloyd for Prospect Pictures. It stars Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) as Ken Bishop and his stepson Duane, and Lee Cornes as their musical agent Dickie Valentino, in their attempt to remake a track by Ken's old band, 'The Nice Twelve' for a TV advert for 'Pinkies', a brand of kitchen gloves made by Mort Clayton (Mac McDonald). Alexander Armstrong (Tim) and Sam Graham (Fergus) work for the fictional advertising agency Sprote and Sprote. The film takes its name from the 1954 film There's No Business Like Show Business which itself borrowed the 1946 song of the same name by Irving Berlin, written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Prospect Pictures

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Cast

Kenworth "Ken" Bishop

Simon Brint

Duane Bishop

Rowland Rivron

Dickie Valentino

Lee Cornes

Tilly

Tilly Vosburgh

Reg Prince

Stephen Frost

Johnny Blackpool

Mark Arden

Bernie Cosmos

Paul Mark Elliott

Fergus

Sam Graham

Tim

Alexander Armstrong

Crispian Sprote

Chris Palmer

Marcus

Mark Bannister

Mort Clayton

Mac McDonald

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