No Resting Place
5.6
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
22 people
Michael Gough
Alec Kyle
Known for
Batman Returns
Corpse Bride
Eithne Dunne
Meg Kyle
Known for
Dementia 13
Gerard Healy
Paul Rotha
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Colin Lesslie
Noel Purcell
Guard Mannigan
Known for
Moby Dick
Mutiny on the Bounty
Brian O'Higgins
Tom Kyle
Known for
Ryan's Daughter
Ian Niall
Jack MacGowran
Billy Kyle
Known for
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Exorcist
Michael Orrom
Diana Campbell
Bess Kyle
Paul Rotha Director · Michael Orrom Writer Colin Lesslie Writer
United States release May 4, 1952 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Colin Lesslie Productions
Production
United Kingdom
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Italy · January 1, 1951
Venice Film Festival
United Kingdom · January 12, 1951
Theatrical
United States · May 4, 1952
New York City, New York
Australia
March 9, 1953 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
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