No Resting Place
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.
Top-billed cast
- BBilly O'Gorman
- EEithne Dunne
- EEsther O'Connor
- MMaureen O'Sullivan
- CChristy Lawrence
- MMichael Gough
- FFred Johnson
- JJack MacGowran
- DDiana Campbell
- BBrian O'Higgins
Crew
- Director
- Paul Rotha
- Writers
- Michael Orrom, Ian Niall, Paul Rotha, Colin Lesslie, Gerard Healy
- Producer
- Colin Lesslie
- Production
- Colin Lesslie Productions
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Who directed No Resting Place?
No Resting Place was directed by Paul Rotha.
When was No Resting Place released?
No Resting Place was released in 1951.
