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1935
The Informer is a 1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades and spirals into guilt as his…
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The Irish struggle for independence has always enjoyed a great deal of sympathy in the United States. This is hardly surprising, since both countries have won their independence from the British. Those sympathies extended to the American film industry and the person most associated with it was the Irish American director John Ford who, despite being mostly associated with the genre of the western, had some of his be…More
