The Informer (1935) on Netflix
In 1922 Dublin, Gypo Nolan, expelled from the IRA, wants passage to America with Katie Madden. A reward is posted for his fugitive friend Frankie McPhillip, and Gypo turns informer.
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Plot summary
Gypo Nolan has been expelled from the Irish Republican Army. In 1922 Dublin he wants to leave the city behind and start over in America with his girlfriend Katie Madden, a streetwalker who has no ten pounds for the crossing. Gypo runs into Frankie McPhillip, an IRA comrade who is a fugitive and has hidden for six months, and the British authorities offer a reward for information about Frankie. That money would buy two passages to America.
Cast
- Neil Fitzgeraldas Tommy Connor
- Leo McCabeas Donahue
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Informer (1935)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Dudley Nichols refused his Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Informer because of union disagreements, the first time an Academy Award was ever declined. He claimed the statuette three years later.
- Hoping for British distribution, Joseph Breen of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America sent the script to the British Board of Film Censors, which asked for numerous changes to drop references to the Anglo-Irish conflict.
- The Informer won the Oscar for Best Score, and the award was composer Max Steiner's first Academy Award win.
