The Informer (1935 film)

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 OConnor and J. M. Kerrigan. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols from the novel The Informer by Liam OFlaherty. It was directed by John Ford. The novel had previously been adapted for a British film The Informer 1929.

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 havefor passage to America to start afresh.Gypo later runs into his friend and IRA comrade Frankie McPhillip Wallace Ford, a fugitive with abounty on his head. Frankie, tired of hiding for six months, is on his way home to visit his mother Una OConnor and sister Mary Heather Angel under cover of the foggy night. The slowwitted Gypo decides to turn informer for thereward, enough for passage to America for the both of them. The Black and Tans find Frankie at his house, and Frankie is killed in the ensuing gunfight. The British contemptuously give Gypo his blood money and let him go. ........

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