Black and white film guide - 1935 - The informer

For this year 1935 and as a third recommendation, we are going to get very serious when recommending this "The Informer" And it is that, on this occasion, we are going to look not only at the film with the best grade of the year, with a 7.6 but, above all, with the director who, this year, was awarded the Oscar for best director, the American, John Ford and who, with the recognition of this film, began the highly awarded career of what would become this famous director. . So let's break down who this grumpy "Judas" is who, for other things, was also awarded an Oscar for best male actor. Do you already know who it is?

Well yes, it is about Víctor McLaglen, but before talking about him, let's focus on the film, and I can tell you about this "The Informer" that it is a film of the dramatic genre based on the Irish civil war of 1922. Its producer was RKO Pictures, which, with a budget of $240,000 and a gross of $950,000, not only received a 7.6 rating, but also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. But, as I was saying, if I have highlighted it for something in its presentation, it is because in the figure of John Ford it won the first Oscar for best director. And it is that below I detail the number of nominations and awards that the Oscar obtained, so that you realize the magnitude of this famous film director.

Year Film Result
1936​ The Winner
1940​ Stagecoach Nominated
1941​ The Grapes of Wrath Winner
1942 How green was my valley! Winner
1953​ The Quiet Man Winner
Oscar for best director

And so, after dispatching such an illustrious director, now, let's talk about his interpretation, and in it, we find ourselves in his main role, with the actor Víctor McLaglen, who surely sounds familiar to you, because neither more nor less than 19 years more Later he returned to work under the orders of John Ford, in a film that we recommended at the time and called: "The Quiet Man" Do you remember the boxer adversary of John Wayne himself? Yes? Well that one. But now let's go back to the film that concerns us "The informer" and of which I can tell you that for his interpretation, he got, neither more nor less, than the Oscar for best male actor.

Regarding the rest of the cast, we have the English actress Heather Angel as the main actress and as supporting actors, the actors Preston Foster and Wallace Ford, accompanied by the actress Margot Grahame.

In its technical aspects, "The Informer" is the adaptation of the novel by the revolutionary Irish writer Liam O'Flaherty and made into a film by his cousin, the screenwriter Dudley Nichols, with whom he won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for his work. Lastly, and regarding its soundtrack, it was composed by the Hungarian-born composer Max Steiner. And a composition that, accompanied by orchestrators Maurice De Packh and Bernhard Kaun, won the Oscar for best original composition. Thus, for this reason and as a tribute, below the trailer I will leave you a link to enjoy the theme that corresponds to its "Initial titles"

Beautiful composition that, helped by the orchestrators: Maurice De Packh, Arthur Knowlton, Edward B. Powell, Gene Rose and Eddie Sharpe, managed to get the famous and sensual: "Heaven" nominated for an Oscar for best original song.

And already, shelled this "The informer", it only remains for you to enjoy To do this, I leave you, under the title page, the post that we have published on Ok.ru and, under its trailer, the link to the full film in the original version with subtitles. Therefore, to enjoy its contents, you just have to click on the chosen option.

Synopsis: The Informer is a circular story, a dark story that changes the roles of the characters with each breath of fog in Dublin, and it is that its protagonist, Gypo Nolan, defined by his girlfriend Katie as a "poor blind man", finally he will end up seeing his lie uncovered, neither more nor less than by another poor blind man. In this way, a markedly ideological film is built that, due to its position before the political reality of the island and Catholicism, creates a metaphor by which an Irish rebel is the Messiah of the oppressed nation, and his friend Gypo is the reflection of that famous Biblical traitor named Judas. In this way and as a trademark of the house, the director turns to these common objects to turn them into symbols that mark the course of the film. (Wikipedia)