‘Informer’ added to US film registry, 83 years on

An 83-year-old Oscar-winning movie about a former IRA man desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life has been inducted into the National Film Registry in the United States.

‘Informer’ added to US film registry, 83 years on

An 83-year-old Oscar-winning movie about a former IRA man desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life has been inducted into the National Film Registry in the United States.

The Informer, adapted from a novel by Irish writer Liam O’Flaherty, won four Oscars for director John Ford, actor Victor McLaglen, and Max Steiner’s score at the eighth Academy Awards in 1936.

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