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Name: The Informer
Released: 1935-5-9
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford

The Informer

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1h 31m
1935

94%

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In director John Ford's powerful and deeply moving drama of the price of Irelands "troubles," one man bears the weight of his role as The Informer. In Dublin during the Irish Revolution, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), a giant of a man and a peanut of a brain, has been rejected by the Irish rebels because of lack of intelligence. He only wishes for a life with his sweetheart, Katie Madden (Margot Grahame), who loves him just as he is. So when the British offer him twenty pounds for the location of a friend, Gypo takes the cash. But when his friend is killed, the guilt--and the fear that his friends will discover his guilt--destroys Gypo.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

John Ford

Writer:

Dudley Nichols

Cast:

Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor, J.M. Kerrigan, Joe Sawyer, Neil Fitzgerald

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

94%

Reviews

McCall's

Pare Lorentz

The best picture of the season to date is The Informer, a terse, brutal story of the Irish revolution: a somber portrait of a rabbit-minded giant who betrays his best friend and is hunted to his doom against the leaden background of war-torn Dublin.

I consider it too memorable not to provoke a discussion and not to deserve a reproach. Several reproaches, really, since it has run the beautiful risk of being entirely satisfactory and, for two or three reasons, has not been.

McLaglen is perfect in the lead - a mountainous, uncontrollable ruffian - in a destructive (and self-destructive), chaotic, downward spiral.

July 27, 2020

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Esquire Magazine

Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)

The story is told in sheer cinema terms, with remarkable atmospheric handling. Full credit to director John Ford for the effect of the whole, and for such remarkable touches as the scratching sound...

Strongly handled, with no prettifying touches, The Informer is one of the most impressive pictures of the year.

July 22, 2019

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