Release Date

12 Jan, 1951

Runtime

01:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

No Resting Place

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Actors

Michael Gough

Eithne Dunne

Noel Purcell

Brian O'Higgins

Jack MacGowran

Diana Campbell

Maureen O'Sullivan

May Craig

Fred Johnson

Robert Hennessy

Esther O'Connor

Christy Lawrence

Billy O'Gorman

Crew

Paul Rotha

Wolfgang Suschitzky

Betty Orgar

Colin Lesslie

Michael Orrom

Paul Rotha

Colin Lesslie

William Alwyn

H. Terrington

Michael Orrom

Edgar Wedd

Tony Inglis

Ian Niall

Gerard Healy