The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film. The plot concerns the underside of Irish rebellion set in 1922. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Wallace Ford and Una O'Connor.
The movie was written by Dudley Nichols from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty. It was directed by John Ford.
Seeing a poster that offers a £20 reward for the capture of an old friend of his from the IRA, Gypo is unable to stop himself from informing the police, especially after he and Katie find themselves bewailing their misery and entrapment in front of another poster advertising passage for two to America for £20.
The movie’s sympathies are totally 100% on the Republican side, and as soon as Gypo has done the dirty deed his fate is sealed.
The whole of the movie’s tendency to signify—for everything from the locations, to the props, to the lighting, to the tableau-like posing of figures, to the weird slow-motion dialogue, to mean something—this almost paranoid sense of the world, owes much to the nightmarish subjectivity of Expressionist films.
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