No Resting Place 1951
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No Resting Place
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.
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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... Alec Kyle
... Guard Mannigan
... Billy Kyle
... Meg Kyle
... Tom Kyle
... Nan Kyle
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Release Date:
Jan 12, 1951
Run Time:
1hr 20`
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Original Language:
English
Status:
Released
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No Resting Place
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... Director
Cast
... Alec Kyle
... Guard Mannigan
... Billy Kyle
... Meg Kyle
... Tom Kyle
... Nan Kyle
... Bess Kyle
... Paddy
... Tom's Daughter
... Gamekeeper
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