Film · 1935 · Crime drama
The Informer
Directed by John Ford
1935
★ 1.5 editorial score
Dublin in 1922, shot entirely on a fogged soundstage: John Ford won his first directing Oscar for it, and a slow-witted man sells out a friend for twenty pounds.
“Having no patience with the childlike rigmarole of routine film manufacture, John Ford recites Mr. O'Flaherty's realistic drama of the Dublin slums with bold and smashing skill. In his hands "The Informer" becomes at the same time a striking psychological study of a gutter Judas and a rawly impressive picture of the Dublin underworld during the Black and Tan terror”
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