Film

No Resting Place

1951 · 1h 20m

IMDb

6.7

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.

Michael Gough

Alec Kyle

Eithne Dunne

Meg Kyle

Noel Purcell

Guard Mannigan

Brian O'Higgins

Tom Kyle

Jack MacGowran

Billy Kyle

Diana Campbell

Bess Kyle

Maureen O'Sullivan

Nan Kyle

May Craig

Fred Johnson

Robert Hennessy

Esther O'Connor

Tom's Daughter (uncredited)

Christy Lawrence

Paddy (uncredited)

Billy O'Gorman

Gamekeeper (uncredited)

• Paul RothaDirector · Writer
• Colin LesslieProducer · Writer
• Michael OrromEditor · Writer
• Ian NiallNovel
• Wolfgang SuschitzkyDirector of Photography
• William AlwynOriginal Music Composer
• Betty OrgarEditor

Release date

January 12, 1951

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 20m