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The Resource The Informer, RKO Radio Pictures presents a John Ford production ; directed by John Ford ; associate producer, Cliff Reid ; screen play by Dudley Nichols

The Informer, RKO Radio Pictures presents a John Ford production ; directed by John Ford ; associate producer, Cliff Reid ; screen play by Dudley Nichols

Label
The Informer
Title
The Informer
Statement of responsibility
RKO Radio Pictures presents a John Ford production ; directed by John Ford ; associate producer, Cliff Reid ; screen play by Dudley Nichols
Contributor
Actor
Artistic director
Composer
Costume designer
Director
Director of photography
Editor of moving image work
Producer
Screenwriter
Sound designer
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
The scene is Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan stumbles through a foggy Irish night, his brain pickled in whiskey and his soul tormented by shame and fear. Gypo is an informer, a turncoat who betrayed his friend to the British police for 20 pounds. Now he can't spend the money fast enough, nor can he run from his treachery fast enough as he brawls, brags, swaggers and lies his way toward his fate
Related
Member of
Awards note
Academy Awards (1936): Best actor in a leading role (Victor McLaglen), best director (John Ford), best music, score (Max Steiner), and best writer, screenplay (Dudley Nichols); National Board of Review, USA (1935): Best film; New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1936): Best film, best director (John Ford); Venice Film Festival (1935): Mussolini Cup.
Cataloging source
NDD
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Music by Max Steiner ; photographed by Joseph H. August ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; costumes by Walter Plunkett ; recorded by Hugh McDowell, Jr. ; edited by George Hively
Dewey number
791.43/72
Language note
  • Closed-captioned
  • In English, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles
LC call number
PN1995.9.P76
LC item number
I546 2006
PerformerNote
Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor, J.M. Kerrigan, Joseph Sauers, Neil Fitzgerald, Donald Meek, D'Arcy Corrigan, Leo McCabe, Gaylord Pendleton, Francis Ford, May Boley, Grizelda Harvey, Dennis O'Dea
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1894-1973
  • 1891-1959
  • 1895-1960
  • 1888-1971
  • 1890-1947
  • 1898-1968
  • 1902-1982
  • 1886-1959
  • 1909-1986
  • 1900-1970
  • 1911-1982
  • 1898-1966
  • 1880-1959
  • 1884-1964
  • 1906-1982
  • 1892-1982
  • 1878-1946
  • 1870-1945
  • 1914-1986
  • 1908-1984
  • 1881-1953
  • 1881-1963
  • 1901-1980
  • 1905-1978
  • 1896-1984
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Ford, John
  • Reid, G. C.
  • Nichols, Dudley
  • Steiner, Max
  • August, Joseph H.
  • Polglase, Van Nest
  • Plunkett, Walter
  • McDowell, Hugh
  • Hively, George
  • McLaglen, Victor
  • Angel, Heather
  • Foster, Preston
  • Grahame, Margot
  • Ford, Wallace
  • O'Connor, Una
  • Kerrigan, J. M.
  • Sawyer, Joseph
  • Fitzgerald, Neil
  • Meek, Donald
  • Corrigan, D'Arcy
  • McCabe, Leo
  • Pendleton, Steve
  • Ford, Francis
  • Boley, May
  • Harvey, Grizelda
  • O'Dea, Denis
  • O'Flaherty, Liam
  • RKO Radio Pictures
  • Turner Entertainment Co
  • Warner Bros. Entertainment
  • Warner Home Video (Firm)
Runtime
92
Series statement
John Ford film collection
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • O'Flaherty, Liam
  • O'Flaherty, Liam
  • Easter Rising (Ireland : 1916)
  • Traitors
  • Informers
  • Dissenters
  • Men
  • Prostitution
  • Dissenters
  • Feature films
  • Film adaptations
  • Informers
  • Men
  • Prostitution
  • Traitors
  • Ireland
  • Ireland
Technique
live action
Label
The Informer, RKO Radio Pictures presents a John Ford production ; directed by John Ford ; associate producer, Cliff Reid ; screen play by Dudley Nichols
Instantiates
Publication
Distribution
Production
Copyright
Note
  • Title from disc label
  • From the story by Liam O'Flaherty
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935
  • Also issued as part of the box set: John Ford film collection
  • Special features include: "The informer: out of the fog" featurette; Theatrical trailer
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1793091
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Standard version.
Extent
1 videodisc (92 min.)
Isbn
9780780653726
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
  • 053939751123
  • 085393980429
  • 888574444167
Other physical details
sound, black and white
Publisher number
  • T7511
  • 39804
  • 1000631695
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o70169248
  • (OCoLC)70169248
System details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation preserving the aspect ration of its original theatrical exhibition; Dolby digital mono.; dual-layer format
Video recording format
DVD
Label
The Informer, RKO Radio Pictures presents a John Ford production ; directed by John Ford ; associate producer, Cliff Reid ; screen play by Dudley Nichols
Publication
Distribution
Production
Copyright
Note
  • Title from disc label
  • From the story by Liam O'Flaherty
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935
  • Also issued as part of the box set: John Ford film collection
  • Special features include: "The informer: out of the fog" featurette; Theatrical trailer
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1793091
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Standard version.
Extent
1 videodisc (92 min.)
Isbn
9780780653726
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
  • 053939751123
  • 085393980429
  • 888574444167
Other physical details
sound, black and white
Publisher number
  • T7511
  • 39804
  • 1000631695
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o70169248
  • (OCoLC)70169248
System details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation preserving the aspect ration of its original theatrical exhibition; Dolby digital mono.; dual-layer format
Video recording format
DVD

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