No Resting Place (1951)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 12, 1951Release Date
No Resting Place (1951)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 12, 1951Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Paul Rotha
Director / Writer
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Colin Lesslie
Producer / Writer
William Alwyn
Original Music Composer
Betty Orgar
Editor
Michael Orrom
Editor / Writer
Tony Inglis
Art Direction
H. Terrington
Makeup Artist
Edgar Wedd
Makeup Artist
Ian Niall
Novel
Gerard Healy
Dialogue
Details.
Release DateJanuary 12, 1951
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
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Wiki.
No Resting Place is a 1951 British motion picture directed by Paul Rotha, produced by Colin Lesslie Productions, and starring Michael Gough, based on Ian Niall's 1948 novel. It is noteworthy for its early use of location shooting and for bringing the acting style of Dublin's Abbey Theatre to the screen, as well as being the fiction feature debut of director Paul Rotha and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky.