No Resting Place

No Resting Place (1951)

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

Casts

	Michael Gough as Alec Kyle
	Eithne Dunne as Meg Kyle
	Noel Purcell as Guard Mannigan
	Brian O'Higgins as Tom Kyle
	Jack MacGowran as Billy Kyle
	Diana Campbell as Bess Kyle
	Maureen O'Sullivan as Nan Kyle
	May Craig as
	Fred Johnson as
	Robert Hennessy as
	Esther O'Connor as Tom's Daughter (uncredited)
	Christy Lawrence as Paddy (uncredited)
	Billy O'Gorman as Gamekeeper (uncredited)

Crew