Movie: No Resting Place

Top 10 Billed Cast

Michael Gough
Michael Gough

Alec Kyle

Noel Purcell
Noel Purcell

Guard Mannigan

Jack MacGowran
Jack MacGowran

Billy Kyle

Eithne Dunne
Eithne Dunne

Meg Kyle

Brian O'Higgins
Brian O'Higgins

Tom Kyle

Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan

Nan Kyle

Diana Campbell
Diana Campbell

Bess Kyle

Christy Lawrence
Christy Lawrence

Paddy

Esther O'Connor
Esther O'Connor

Tom's Daughter

Billy O'Gorman
Billy O'Gorman

Gamekeeper

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1951-01-12

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    5

  • Rating:

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    English

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