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VHS : Informer (1935)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford directed by: John Ford  List Price: $14.98 Price: $2.38 You Save: $12.60 (84%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303360027 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC ISBN: 6303360025 Label: Turner Home Ent Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Release Date: March 07, 2000 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: May 09, 1935 Sales Rank: 5503 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: 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. --Sam Sutherland Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Powerful performance of a man who sells out a friendVictor McLaglen, one-time Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain, won an Oscar for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, a drunken lug of an Irishman during the Dublin uprisings in 1922, who rats out his best friend for a 20-pound reward. McLaglen is perfect in this role; director John Ford, who also won an Oscar, was not looking for subtlety from McLaglen and didn't get an ounce of it: he takes the camera on as if it was one of his old boxing opponents. Perhaps there was no more powerful a dumb-brute ... Read More Rating: - 1922?I thought that date looked a bit funny. It's a classic film and it otherwise aptly illustrates the confusion that was the Irish War for Independence. I would also like to correct another reviewer who stated that the Black and Tans patrolled "Northern Ireland" during that time. For the record, prior to 1922, there was no "Northern Ireland" in existence and the Tans and Auxiliaries were stationed throughout Ireland. McLaglen gives an exceptional performance but, like others who have reviewed this film, ... Read More Rating:  - A minor correctionI was so happy to see upon reading the other reviews that someone else had a problem with the movie being set in 1922 with Black and Tans running around. I thought it was just me bothered by this! By 1922, Gypo could possibly have sold out his friend to the Irish Free State or Provisional government authorities, but not to the Tans. It's stupid to let this affect one's view of an otherwise classic movie, but couldn't Ford have gotten a simple date right? Also, not sure the IRA drew straws when they ... Read More Rating: - "Confused!"Editorial reviewer Sam Sutherland has titled this film The Imposter? Whats up with that? Anyway one of the greatest films of all time, also Director John Ford's masterpiece! Rating: - the informerIt's one of the best move to show the viewer an insight in the life so hard, but made more so by the english hold in Irland & it people, But on reading a number of review that set the move in 1922, I would not say that by 1922 the Irish war had come to a end on January 7. And on January 18, 1922, two days after the new Provisional Government took office, Michael Collins took possession of Dublin Castle, so bring a end to British rule in Ireland, One must write the true, so as not to give out the wrong ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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