The Informer

Credits then the abstract and chilling opening sequence from The Informer, 1935, which won Academy Awards for Best Direction (John Ford), Best Actor (Victor McLaglen), screenplay (Dudley Nichols) and score (Max Steiner).

Dublin rebel Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford) comes home to his mother (Una O'Connor) and sister (Heather Angel) and a trap laid by his friend Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen, title character), disconsolate at the British headquarters, in John Ford's The Informer, 1935.

Wanted rebel Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford) finds his own "wanted" poster, evades a British patrol in Dublin, then surprises his friend, the not overly clever Gypo (Victor McLaglen), in John Ford's The Informer, 1935.

Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) comes upon the distraught Katie Madden (Margot Grahame) on a Dublin street in this early scene from John Ford's The Informer, 1935.

Victor McLaglen won a Best Actor Oscar® playing an Irish rebel who sells out his friend in John Ford's The Informer (1935).