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Laserdisc Title: "THE INFORMER (1935)"
Edition: Fullscreen Edition (Single Disc)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford and Una O'Connor
Production / Year: 1935 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc Renewed 1962 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Running Time: 91 Minutes / B&W
Audio Format: Digital Sound,CX Encoded
Video Format: NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: None
Distributed By: Image Entertainment
Catalog / Spine Number: ID6401TU

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to very minor hairline surface swirls, if any (Disc Manufactured in Japan)
Jacket: Excellent - Normal shelf wear, few creases, slightly worn-out corners or edges but no obvious signs of spines splitting

Synopsis:
Victor McLaglen won an Oscar for best actor in this 1935 John Ford film. Set during the Irish Civil War, McLaglen plays Gypo Nolan, a down-on-his-luck ex-revolutionary who's been kicked out of the IRA for cowardice. Driven to desperate measures, he turns in his best friend Frankie McPhilip to the Black and Tans, the dreaded British constabulary force that patrolled Northern Ireland during the times of "the Troubles." He gets enough money to get himself and his girlfriend out of the country, but guilt holds him back. McLaglen's portrayal of a tormented soul was his best screen performance, and the scene where he's tried in a basement by the IRA is marvelous. Legend has it that the night before the scene was shot, Ford told McLaglen to go out and party because he was going to have the next day off. Very early the next morning, however, McLaglen was awoken from a horrific hangover and told that the schedule had been changed. When you see him before the tribunal, he really looks frazzled and shook up! John Ford was a master at eliciting great performances from actors, but he wasn't too particular over how he got it out of them. A superb performance in a wonderfully atmospheric film. Four years before he revived and elevated the Western in Stagecoach, director John Ford guided this atmospheric melodrama to multiple Academy Awards, proving that his underlying skills as a storyteller, visual designer, and dramatic guide didn't need epic scale, sweeping action, or favorite star John Wayne to achieve dramatic impact. Based on Liam O'Flaherty's novel set during the Sinn Fein rebellion in 1922, Dudley Nichols's script offers an intimate portrait of Gypo Nolan, a violent, alcoholic Dubliner who betrays a friend (Wallace Ford) for £20, setting in motion a downward spiral of fear, anger, and drunken oblivion. The Imposter captures Ford and filmmaking at an evolutionary balance point between the purer visual storytelling of silent film and the emerging literary possibilities of sound: on the one hand, Ford paints a nocturnal Dublin of deep shadows and billowing fog in which his characters are placed in pointed tableaux, and project their actions and attitudes with stylized, theatrical gestures that seem naive alongside later, more naturalistic films; on the other, the director pushes his star, Victor McLaglen, past traditional stagecraft toward a truly harrowing, authentic performance. Pauline Kael has noted the Hollywood legend that Ford induced McLaglen's Oscar-winning turn by keeping him too drunk to embellish his work. Whatever the cause, the actor achieves a lumbering, out-of-control power that traces the rage, confusion, and ultimate despair that Nolan's descent describes. That gripping performance is the film's most modern aspect and riveting dramatic hook and more than justifies watching.

THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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