No Resting Place
1951, English. Directed by Paul Rotha.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Paul RothaDirector
- Michael GoughAlec Kyle
- Eithne DunneMeg Kyle
- Noel PurcellGuard Mannigan
- Brian O'HigginsTom Kyle
- Jack MacGowranBilly Kyle
- Diana CampbellBess Kyle
- Maureen O'SullivanNan Kyle
- May CraigCast
- Fred JohnsonCast
- Robert HennessyCast
- Esther O'ConnorTom's Daughter (uncredited)
- Christy LawrencePaddy (uncredited)
Details
- Released
- 12 January 1951
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Colin Lesslie, Michael Orrom, Paul Rotha
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No Resting Place runs 80 minutes (1h 20m).
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No Resting Place isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 12 January 1951. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed No Resting Place?
No Resting Place (1951) was directed by Paul Rotha and stars Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne, Noel Purcell.