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No Resting Place

6.3(3)19511h 20m1

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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Language
English

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Director

Paul Rotha

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical12 Jan 1951
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Mar 1953

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No Resting Place was released on 12 January 1951.

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