‘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.