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.
Paul Rotha
Director, Writer
Colin Lesslie
Writer
Michael Orrom
Writer
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
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