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No Resting Place

No Resting Place

1h 20m

January 12, 1951 (74 years ago)

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Michael Gough

Michael Gough

Alec Kyle

Birthday: November 23, 1916

34 March 17, 2011 (94)
Noel Purcell

Noel Purcell

Guard Mannigan

Birthday: December 23, 1900

50 March 3, 1985 (84)
Jack MacGowran

Jack MacGowran

Billy Kyle

Birthday: October 13, 1918

32 January 30, 1973 (54)
Eithne Dunne

Eithne Dunne

Meg Kyle

Birthday: -

- December 22, 1988 (null)
Brian O'Higgins

Brian O'Higgins

Tom Kyle

Birthday: January 1, 1917

34 March 29, 1980 (63)
Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Nan Kyle

Birthday: May 17, 1911

39 June 23, 1998 (87)
Diana Campbell

Diana Campbell

Bess Kyle

Birthday: -

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Christy Lawrence

Christy Lawrence

Paddy

Birthday: -

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Esther O'Connor

Esther O'Connor

Tom's Daughter

Birthday: -

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Billy O'Gorman

Billy O'Gorman

Gamekeeper

Birthday: -

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