The Informer (1935 film)
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Produced by | John Ford Cliff Reid (associate) |
| Screenplay by | Dudley Nichols |
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The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty |
| Starring |
Victor McLaglen Heather Angel Preston Foster Margot Grahame Wallace Ford Una O'Connor |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Joseph H. August |
| Edited by | George Hively |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (USA) |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $243,000 |
| Box office | $950,000 |
The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1920. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J. M. Kerrigan. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols from the novel The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty. It was directed by John Ford. The novel had previously been adapted for a British film The Informer (1929).
Along with Mutiny on the Bounty, The Informer was a big contender at the 8th Academy Awards, competing directly in all six categories they were nominated for (though Mutiny got eight nominations in total, given its three Best Actor nominations). The Informer won four Oscars: Best Director for Ford, Best Actor for McLaglen, Best Writing Screenplay for Nichols, and Best Score.
In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) has been kicked out of the outlaw Irish Republican Army (IRA) for not executing a Black and Tan who killed an IRA man. He becomes angry when he sees his streetwalker girlfriend Katie Madden (Margot Grahame) trying to pick up a customer. After he throws the man into the street, Katie laments that she does not have £10 for passage to America to start afresh.
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