No Resting Place (1951)

Run Time: 1h20m | Release: 12 Jan 1951

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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.

Cast Of - No Resting Place

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Michael Gough

Alec Kyle

Noel Purcell

Guard Mannigan

Jack MacGowran

Billy Kyle

Eithne Dunne

Meg Kyle

Brian O'Higgins

Tom Kyle

Diana Campbell

Bess Kyle

Esther O'Connor

Tom's Daughter

Billy O'Gorman

Gamekeeper

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