Movie
No Resting Place
5.0/10
1951
1h 20m
en
Overview
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.
Director
Paul Rotha
Writers
Colin Lesslie, Michael Orrom
Movie Information
Release Date
January 12, 1951
Runtime
1h 20m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
1
Production
Colin Lesslie Productions
