No Limit is a 1935 British comedy film

Comedy film

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 which was released by Associated Talking Pictures. It starred George Formby and Florence Desmond

Florence Desmond

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Synopsis

A chimney sweep

Chimney sweep

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 from Wigan

Wigan

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 dreams of winning the Isle of Man TT

Isle of Man TT

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 Race. With money 'borrowed' from his grandfather, George Shuttleworth builds the "Shuttleworth Snap" motorcycle

Motorcycle

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 after failing to join the Rainbow Motor-Cycle team. He not only succeeds in winning the race, but the girl as well.

Cast

• George Formby as George Shuttleworth
• Florence Desmond as Florrie Dibney
• Edward Rigby
  Edward Rigby
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   as Grandfather Shuttleworth
• Florence Gleason as Mrs Shuttleworth
• Beatrix Fielden-Kaye as Mrs Horrocks
• Howard Douglas as Turner
• Jack Hobbs as Bert Tyldesley
• Alf Goddard as Norton
• Peter Gawthorne
  Peter Gawthorne
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   as Mr Higgins
• Eva Lister as Rita
• Evelyn Roberts
  Evelyn Roberts
  -Selected filmography:* Bolibar * Say It with Music * One Precious Year * The Melody-Maker * Anne One Hundred * Purse Strings * Sorrell and Son * The Broken Rosary...
  
   as BBC Commentator
• Ernest Sefton as Mr Hardacre
• Arthur Young as Doctor

Crew

• Producer - Basil Dean
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• Director - Monty Banks
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• Writers - Tom Geraghty/Fred Thompson from a story by Walter Greenwood
  Walter Greenwood
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• Art Direction - J.Elder Willis
• Sound - John W.Mitchell
• Supervising Editor - Jack Kitchen
• Music - Ord Hamilton and his Twentieth Century Band

Songs

• "Riding in the TT Races". Performed by George Formby and written by Cliffe & Gifford
• "Riding Around on a Rainbow". Performed by George Formby and Florence Desmond and written by Fred E. Cliffe
• "In a Little Wigan Garden". Performed by George Formby and written by Cliffe & Gifford
• "Your Way is My Way". Performed by George Formby and written by Harry Parr-Davis

Production notes

• No Limit used the 1935 Isle of Man TT
  1935 Isle of Man TT
  For the 1935 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, Stanley Woods provided another surprise by moving again, from Husqvarna to Moto Guzzi.The 1935 Junior TT Race provided a Junior TT double win for Jimmie Guthrie at an average race speed of and Norton with a 1-2-3 race win with Walter Rusk and "Crasher"...
  
   as the backdrop to the film production. Many outdoor scenes were used in the Isle of Man including Douglas Beach, White City, Douglas Head Road, the Palace Ballrooms and the Douglas Camera Obscura.
• Many stunts in the movie are by motor-cycle racers from the Isle of Man including brothers Bertie and Harold Rowell. Members of the Peveril Motor Cycle Club also carried out some of the stunts, including Cyril Standen who crashed into the front-door of the Ballacraine
  Ballacraine
  Ballacraine is situated between the 7th Milestone and 8th Milestone road-side markers on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT Races on the junction of the primary A1 Douglas to Peel road and the A3 Castletown to Ramsey road in the parish of German in the Isle of Man.The road...
  
   Hotel and the crash into the river at Sulby
  Sulby, Isle of Man
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  . Jack Cannell also featured as a stunt rider wearing bib number 15.

Photos

• No Limit film still (retrieved November 16, 2006)
• No Limit film still (retrieved November 16, 2006)
• No Limit film still (retrieved November 16, 2006)

Other

• www.georgeformby.co.uk (retrieved November 16, 2006)
• IOM Guide for No Limit (retrieved November 16, 2006)