The Informer
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend; then feels doom closing in.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 21, 2020
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Mr. FAT-W Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster & Margot Grahame | |
Performer: | Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor, J.M. Kerrigan & Donald Meek | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | George Hively | |
Screenplay by | Dudley Nichols | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Van Nest Polglase | |
Produced by | John Ford | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph H. August |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1935 -
Best Actor: Victor McLaglen
Academy Awards 1935 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dudley Nichols
Academy Awards 1935 -
Best Director: John Ford
Academy Awards 1935 -
Best Original Score: Max Steiner
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Among John Ford's first great films; w/Oscar turn by McLaglen.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: B+ --
John Ford won the first of his four Oscars for this tale of betrayal, set against the Irish Revolution of 1922, which is more impressive visually than thematically.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 7/10 --
The Informer remains a keenly moving film experience.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 5/5 --
Nearly as good as its reputation
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The film's gorgeous black-and-white cinematography -- with its streams of fog and sparkling cobblestones -- gave audiences a new glimpse as to the potential artistry of cinema.
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Combustible Celluloid
Certainly it is the best movie of the year so far, and it is doubtful if any subsequent one will be able to surpass it. I am inclined to believe, moreover, that it is the finest thing which the American movies have ever produced.
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Vanity Fair
Victor MeLaglen has never given an abler performance, and the film, even if it sometimes underlines its points rather crudely, is a memorable picture of a pitiless war waged without honour on either side in doorways and cellars and gin shops.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Victor McLaglen stars as the benighted Gypo Nolan in John Ford's classic version of Liam Flaherty's novel. In 1922 Dublin, Nolan, who's been exiled by his IRA cell for refusing an assignment to kill a man, is ridiculed for his perennial poverty by his prostitute girlfriend, Katie Madden (Margot Grahame), who wants badly for them to immigrate to the United States. Smarting from her insults and knowing that the British have posted a reward for the whereabouts of his best friend, IRA soldier Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), Gypo goes to the headquarters of the hated Black and Tans and reveals his friend's location. After Frankie is shot down by the British, Gypo collects his 20 pounds and goes out to impress Kate and get drunk. To avoid suspicion, he moves on to Frankie's funeral, where guilt gnaws at his entrails as he witnesses the misery he's created. Worse, the IRA soldiers present notice that the impoverished Gypo has money to burn and, suspecting he knows something about Frankie's death, take him to their commander, Dan Gallagher (Preston Foster), for questioning. McLaglen won an Academy Award for his moving portrayal of the tragically flawed Gypo. The uncharacteristically noirish and expressionistic feel of THE INFORMER, courtesy of Joseph August's evocative photography of the ominous, fog-choked streets, heightens the impact of a film that ranks among Ford's best.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,085
- UPC: 191091190258
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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