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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Stars: Michael Gough, Noel Purcell, Jack MacGowran, Eithne Dunne, Brian O'Higgins, Maureen O'Sullivan
Crew: Paul Rotha (Director), Wolfgang Suschitzky (Director of Photography), William Alwyn (Original Music Composer), Betty Orgar (Editor), Tony Inglis (Art Direction), Paul Rotha (Writer)
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Language: English
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Runtime: 80 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 12, 1951
IMDb: 10
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