The Informer (1935)
Directed by John Ford
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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For one showpiece example, there's a scene where the action is accompanied by both the climactic scene of John Ford's The Informer (1935) playing on a TV and the Badfinger song "Baby Blue" on the soundtrack.
Costello's red-drenched night at the opera follows into the merest view to a coke-fueled orgy, with The Band's version of "Comfortably Numb" completing the rhapsodic impressionism; the shift from Italo-American New York City to Irish Boston is a smooth one for the Catholic anguish remains in place, as a TV glimpse of The Informer (Victor McLaglen contorted in chiaroscuro penitence) segues into a Virgin Mary mosaic, which is promptly smashed over the head of a thug.
And there’s Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas, “The Informer”), Harlan’s nurse and confidante.
From his earliest talkies, like The Lost Patrol (1934) and The Informer (1935), he earned the esteem of his peers and the critics.
The films were 1935's The Informer, 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, 1941's How Green Was My Valley (which also won Best Picture, defeating Citizen Kane ), and one of the filmmaker's most beloved efforts, 1952's The Quiet Man.