The read
It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul RothaDirector
- William AlwynOriginal Music Composer
- Paul RothaWriter
- Colin LesslieWriter
- Michael OrromWriter
Cast
- Michael GoughAlec Kyle
- Eithne DunneMeg Kyle
- Noel PurcellGuard Mannigan
- Brian O'HigginsTom Kyle
- Jack MacGowranBilly Kyle
- Diana CampbellBess Kyle
- Maureen O'SullivanNan Kyle
- May CraigCast
- Fred JohnsonCast
- Robert HennessyCast
- Esther O'ConnorTom's Daughter (uncredited)
- Christy LawrencePaddy (uncredited)