National Film Registry - The Informer (1935)

Informer, The - (Re-issue Trailer)

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

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Pounds to America!

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.

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Then Judas Repented

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).

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Paddy's Not Out Tonight

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.

Informer, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Better Count It...

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.