No Resting Place (1951)
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the film is a lightly fictionalized study of that country's itinerant workmen. Michael Gough plays tinker Alec Kyle, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a man. Kyle spends the rest of the film evading Guard Mannigan (Noel Purcell), a civil servant who relies on instinct rather than scientific deduction to get his man. Without ever trying to elicit sympathy for his characters, director Rotha manages to compellingly detail the miserable living and working conditions of Ireland's nomad artisans.
- Released
- 1951-01-12
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Paul Rotha
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Michael Gough as Alec Kyle
- Eithne Dunne as Meg Kyle
- Noel Purcell as Guard Mannigan
- Brian O'Higgins as Tom Kyle
- Jack MacGowran as Billy Kyle
- Diana Campbell as Bess Kyle
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Nan Kyle
- May Craig
- Fred Johnson
- Robert Hennessy
- Esther O'Connor as Tom's Daughter (uncredited)
- Christy Lawrence as Paddy (uncredited)