---
title: 'The Informer (1935)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Ford'
released: '1935-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 91
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-informer-1935'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026529/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Informer (1935)

1935 · 91 min · Drama, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

The Informer is a 1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously informs on his former comrades and spirals into guilt as his treachery becomes known. Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J. M. Kerrigan co-star. The novel had previously been adapted for a British film of the same name in 1929.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Producer:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Screenplay:** [Dudley Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/dudley-nichols)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph H. August](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-h-august)
- **Editor:** [George Hively](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-hively-2)

## Cast

- [Earle Foxe](https://cinepixo.com/people/earle-foxe)
- [Joe Sawyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-sawyer)
- [James Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-murray-5)
- [Harry Tenbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-tenbrook)
- [Wallace Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/wallace-ford)
- [Heather Angel](https://cinepixo.com/people/heather-angel)
- [Frank Marlowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-marlowe)
- [Margot Grahame](https://cinepixo.com/people/margot-grahame)
- [Jack Mulhall](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mulhall)
- [Donald Meek](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-meek)
- [Denis O'Dea](https://cinepixo.com/people/denis-o-dea)
- [J. M. Kerrigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-m-kerrigan)
- [Una O'Connor](https://cinepixo.com/people/una-o-connor)
- [Barlowe Borland](https://cinepixo.com/people/barlowe-borland)
- [Francis Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford)

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