The Informer - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers with Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster and Directed by JOHN FORD
directed by: John Ford
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Release Date: June 6, 2006.
Release Date: June 6, 2006.
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- The Irish Republican Army takes a revenge on an informer
A semi-simple Irish giant of a man turns in his best friend to send his girl friend to America in the 1930's.
He is a drunkard and seems to have no idea that he has done something very wrong until the inevitable end.
Ireland wants nothing to do with the British empire
and has two armies: the British which is composed of men wearing Scotch hats
and the underground wearing trench coats.
Even today the IRA sends terror into the hearts of otherwise tough people the world ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Classic (But With a Caveat)
While I concur wholeheartedly with the superlatives applied to this film by the other reviewers, I feel that I must point out that this release appears to have been mastered from a release print rather than one from the vaults.The film has not been restored.There are long, deep scratches running throughout the film that could have been remedied by careful restoration.Warners is usually much better about this.Please don't let this deter you from purchasing this film.It is truly a classic, ... Read More
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- The Informer
This blistering adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's novel by John Ford features a searing, Oscar-winning performance by McLaglen, who plays the barrel-chested Irish boozer and Troubles-era traitor with gut-wrenching pathos, especially when he delivers his last line. A labor of love for Ford, outfitted with Joseph August's atmospheric evocation of foggy Dublin and a superb score by Oscar winner Max Steiner, "Informer" is the kind of full-blooded political drama we rarely get to enjoy today. And McLaglen's ... Read More
Rating: - Victor McLaglen, as you've never seen him . . .
If ever there was a film that defines a "timeless classic", this is it.
Victor McLaglen, your favorite comedic and gruff cavalry sergeant in westerns, gives a stunning dramatic performance which won him an academy award in this 1935 John Ford masterpiece. McLaglen is Gyppo Nolan, a somewhat dim witted, hulking, and shunned IRA Soldier in war torn Dublin of the early 1900's. Gyppo fell out of favor with the IRA, is penniless, without friends, and in love with a streetwalker named Katy. Gyppo ... Read More
Rating: - the first of john ford's great irish movies
my estimate is that in my life ive seen in excess of 3000 movies, yet im bewildered at the number of acknowledged classics ive missed.so cross another off the list.john ford helmed this claustrophobic character study of one day in the life of a brute (no negatives attached to the word here) who betrays his best friend for money and learns to live (& die) with the results of his actions.victor mclaglen gives a perfect performance in the title role, and anyone who is accustomed to the expanses of fords ... Read More
- The Irish Republican Army takes a revenge on an informerA semi-simple Irish giant of a man turns in his best friend to send his girl friend to America in the 1930's.
He is a drunkard and seems to have no idea that he has done something very wrong until the inevitable end.
Ireland wants nothing to do with the British empire
and has two armies: the British which is composed of men wearing Scotch hats
and the underground wearing trench coats.
Even today the IRA sends terror into the hearts of otherwise tough people the world ... Read More
- A Great Classic (But With a Caveat)While I concur wholeheartedly with the superlatives applied to this film by the other reviewers, I feel that I must point out that this release appears to have been mastered from a release print rather than one from the vaults.The film has not been restored.There are long, deep scratches running throughout the film that could have been remedied by careful restoration.Warners is usually much better about this.Please don't let this deter you from purchasing this film.It is truly a classic, ... Read More
- The InformerThis blistering adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's novel by John Ford features a searing, Oscar-winning performance by McLaglen, who plays the barrel-chested Irish boozer and Troubles-era traitor with gut-wrenching pathos, especially when he delivers his last line. A labor of love for Ford, outfitted with Joseph August's atmospheric evocation of foggy Dublin and a superb score by Oscar winner Max Steiner, "Informer" is the kind of full-blooded political drama we rarely get to enjoy today. And McLaglen's ... Read More
- Victor McLaglen, as you've never seen him . . .If ever there was a film that defines a "timeless classic", this is it.
Victor McLaglen, your favorite comedic and gruff cavalry sergeant in westerns, gives a stunning dramatic performance which won him an academy award in this 1935 John Ford masterpiece. McLaglen is Gyppo Nolan, a somewhat dim witted, hulking, and shunned IRA Soldier in war torn Dublin of the early 1900's. Gyppo fell out of favor with the IRA, is penniless, without friends, and in love with a streetwalker named Katy. Gyppo ... Read More
- the first of john ford's great irish moviesmy estimate is that in my life ive seen in excess of 3000 movies, yet im bewildered at the number of acknowledged classics ive missed.so cross another off the list.john ford helmed this claustrophobic character study of one day in the life of a brute (no negatives attached to the word here) who betrays his best friend for money and learns to live (& die) with the results of his actions.victor mclaglen gives a perfect performance in the title role, and anyone who is accustomed to the expanses of fords ... Read More
