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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.
Melbourne International Film Festival 1953
Cast: Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne, Noel Purcell, Brian O'Higgins, Jack MacGowran, Diana Campbell, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Craig, Fred Johnson, Robert Hennessy, Esther O'Connor, Christy Lawrence, Billy O'Gorman
Writers: Colin Lesslie (Writer), Michael Orrom (Writer), Ian Niall (Novel), Paul Rotha (Writer)
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Production Designer: Tony Inglis
Editors: Betty Orgar, Michael Orrom
Composer: William Alwyn
Direction team: John Llewellyn Moxey (Assistant Director), Renée Glynne (Continuity)
Producer: Colin Lesslie
Production: Colin Lesslie Productions
