No Resting Place (1951)
Overview
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.
Overview
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.
Release Date
January 12, 1951
Rating
Runtime
1h 20m
Michael Gough
Alec Kyle
Noel Purcell
Guard Mannigan
Jack MacGowran
Billy Kyle
Eithne Dunne
Meg Kyle
Brian O'Higgins
Tom Kyle
Maureen O'Sullivan
Nan Kyle
Diana Campbell
Bess Kyle
Christy Lawrence
Paddy
Esther O'Connor
Tom's Daughter
Billy O'Gorman
Gamekeeper
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