Film · RKO · 1935
Pass it on
The Informer
48Watch it awake.
He sells one named friend for a fare, and the money does not save him.
The review
Passage money, one friend, one night. That is the size of it. In the Irish troubles, a man sells a friend to the police for a fare to America. The money does not save him. The organization and the street both know. Victor McLaglen. Ford took best director, and McLaglen best actor. Not a giant gross. The guilt fits inside that night.
A house can watch it. I would not dress it up as a chase. A small betrayal with a name on it weighs more than a speech about loyalty. The fare was the want, and the fare failed. If we sit down, we sit with the friend who was sold, not with the prizes. The street already knows. That is the bill.
Journal
Keep The Informer in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Quiet Man
58 instead of 48
The Quiet Man is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 48. What you gain is household: A marriage that has to be public to be real.
The eight
- 3Industry
The only wage in it is the fare he takes for selling a friend.
- 2Household
A friend is spent; no marriage or child is the life on screen.
- 5Piety
Guilt arrives in one night and does not buy the sale back.
- 2Courage
He sells the friend he should have been willing to lose for.
- 8Republic
The organization and the street both know what he owes.
- 5Temperance
A passage is the want, and the money does not save him.
- 9Truth
The fare fails, and the betrayal has a friend's name on it.
- 4Stewardship
Acting and directing prizes remain; the night still has his name.
Where to watch
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