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.

Data di uscita
1951-01-12
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Durata
1 h 20 min
Generi
Crime, Dramma
Regista
Paul Rotha

Cast

Curiosità

No Resting Place is a 1951 British film directed by Paul Rotha and starring Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne and Noel Purcell. It was written by Colin Lesslie, Rotha, and Michael Orrom based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Ian Niall, and produced by Colin Lesslie Productions. It is noteworthy for its early use of location shooting and for bringing the acting style of Dublin's Abbey Theatre to the screen, as well as being the fiction feature debut of Rotha and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky.

Production

It was the first fiction film directed by Rotha, formerly a documentary maker. The film draws on Rotha's documentary background as well as Italian neo-Realism, with scenes of rural and domestic life particularly showing the influence of his documentaries. It was made for a low budget of 60,000 GBP.

It was shot entirely on location in Wicklow, Ireland by cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky. It was the first film as cinematographer for Suschitzky, who went on to photograph films including Get Carter.

The soundtrack was by William Alwyn, using a small ensemble of traditional Irish instruments: harp, flute, and violin.

Apart from stars Michael Gough and Noel Purcell, Rotha drew the cast from Irish theatres including the Abbey Theatre and Irish radio. It is regarded by some critics as part of an Abbey school of filmmaking that aimed to mimic the realism of contemporary mainland-European film.

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