The Informer (1935) |
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Other InformationAwardsBest Picture Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Writing, Screenplay Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Music, Score Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Director Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1936] (Won/Nominated: Won) Mussolini Cup Venice Film Festival [1935] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThe Informer, Liam O`Flaherty`s novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929, with Cyril McLaglen in the lead. When director John Ford remade The Informer in 1935, the role of the tragic Irish roisterer Gy... Related MoviesThe Informer [Remake of] (Year of movie: 1929) Up Tight! [Version of] (Year of movie: 1968) The Informer [Version of] (Year of movie: 1929) |
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The Informer (1935) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Gypo Nolan: [loudly at Frankie`s wake] I`m sorry for your trouble, Mrs. McPhillip!
Bartly Mulholland: What are you shoutin` for? Don`t you know there`s a wake goin` on? Katie Madden: Gypo, where did you get that money? Look at it, and not an hour ago you hadn`t a penny to warm your pocket. Did someone die and leave you a pot of gold?
Gypo Nolan: Why are you sayin` that for?
Katie Madden: Well, did you rob a church or what? Frankie McPhillip: Up the rebels! Gypo Nolan: And now the British think I`m with the Irish, and the Irish think I`m with the British. The long and short of it is I`m walkin` around without a dog to lick my trousers! Katie Madden: Ah, Gypo, what`s the use? I`m hungry, and I can`t pay my room rent. Have you the price of a flop on you?
Gypo Nolan: No.
Katie Madden: What`s the use? Ah. don`t look at me like that, Gypo! You`re all I got! You`re the only one. You know that. But what chance do we have to escape? Money! Some people have all the luck!
[Indicating the ad in the travel agency window]
Katie Madden: Look at that thing handing us the ha-ha! Ten pounds to America! Twenty pounds and the world is ours?
Gypo Nolan: What are you saying that for? Terry: [realizing Gypo`s stuck him with the bill as an angry bouncer glowers at him] Oh dear, oh dear. I have a queer feelin` there`s going to be a strange face in heaven in the mornin`.Trivia Shot in 17 days. Dudley Nichols wrote the script in six days. In later years, in interviews with fellow director Peter Bogdanovich, Ford conceded that he felt that "The Informer" lacked humor. John Ford had been highly impressed by F.W. Murnau`s "Sunrise" (1927) and wanted to bring an element of German Expressionism to his film. Ford kept Victor McLaglen continually off-balance (and thus in character) by getting him drunk, changing his schedules, verbally abusing him on and off the set and filming scenes when he`d told McLaglen that they were only rehearsing. For the crucial rebel court scene, the story goes that Ford reduced the actor to a trembling wreck by promising him the day off only to bring him into the studio early and extremely hungover, insisting that he spit out his lines. McLaglen was so furious with Ford over this that he threatened to quit acting and kill his director. Another reason why RKO was reluctant to make the film was because a version of the story had already been filmed in the UK in 1929. Initially a box office failure, the film made millions when it was re-released after its multiple wins at the Academy Awards. RKO was highly dubious about the project, given the depressing subject matter and the pathetic lead character. However, following the success of Ford`s "The Lost Patrol", they agreed to stump up the budget for the film, provided it didn`t cost any more than $250,000. Ford had to forego his own salary to ensure that the film met that budget restriction. The film came in at $243,000. A presentation copy of the script was recently found on a garbage pile in Madison, Wisconsin. It was brought on to the show "Antiques Roadshow" where it was appraised for about $4000. Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Oscar, turning it down because of Union disagreements. Academy records indicate that Nichols had taken possession of his Oscar by 1949. A number of references suggest the possibility that Ward Bond appears in a bit part in this film, and it has also been rumored that J. Farrell MacDonald does so as well. However, frame-by-frame analysis of the film indicates that neither appears in the film in any capacity, and indeed, both were rather more substantially well known at the time than a passing bit role would suggest as likely, even for their friend John Ford. In one scene, in the fish-and-chips shop, an extra appears who has a slight resemblance to Bond, but it is definitely not he. And J. Farrell MacDonald`s name might well have been mistaken for J.M. Kerrigan, who does indeed have a substantial role. Kerrigan, though, is already billed in the credits. Bond and MacDonald are not in The Informer. Ford was concerned that the scene where drunken "King" Gypo goes into the brothel for Katie would not pass censors. The studio came up with the idea to "put the cats in hats", that is have all the prostitutes wear hats indoors, thus dissuading the censorship board from thinking they were prostitutes. This was the first of RKO`s three-picture deal with director John Ford and despite its deserved reputation and multiple Oscars, it was a low budget production. Its negative production costs came to a mere $243,000. The premiere took place aboard the French transatlantic liner "Normandie". Is the first film and only film to win the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Picture by a unanimous vote on the first ballot. The day before shooting Gypo Nolan`s trial scene, John Ford told Victor McLaglen that he wouldn`t be needed the next day so he should take a break, enjoy himself, and not worry about his lines. McLaglen proceeded to go out drinking--which Ford knew he would do--and the next day was forced to film the scene with a terrible hangover, which was just the effect Ford wanted. | ||
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