No Resting Place
1h 20m
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.
Cast
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
Unknown
Fred Johnson
Unknown
Robert Hennessy
Unknown
Esther O'Connor
Tom's Daughter (uncredited)
Christy Lawrence
Paddy (uncredited)
Billy O'Gorman
Gamekeeper (uncredited)
Crew
Paul Rotha
Director, Writer
Colin Lesslie
Writer, Producer
Michael Orrom
Writer, Editor
Ian Niall
Novel
Betty Orgar
Editor
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Director of Photography
John Llewellyn Moxey
Assistant Director
Noel Rowland
Camera Operator
Ethel Minell
Wardrobe Designer
H. Terrington
Makeup Artist
Edgar Wedd
Makeup Artist
Ben Brightwell
Sound Supervisor
William Alwyn
Original Music Composer
Gerard Healy
Dialogue
Renée Glynne
Continuity
Nathan Kramer
Presenter
Michael Hyams
Presenter
Bill Kirby
Production Manager
Tony Inglis
Art Direction
