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Conventional wisdom about John Ford’s The Informer goes something like this: The Informer is released, wildly overpraised, wins Oscars for Ford and star Victor McLaglen. It spends a couple of decades on everybody’s All-Time Ten Best List. Post-war, however, people l
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2 years ago
Despite its old turf hokum, I've kept a fond spot for The Quiet Man as well - one of John Wayne's best roles, the ensemble is terrific, and it's a scenic Ford outside of the American west. "What say you, Michaleen?"
2 years ago
I saw The Informer as a child, way too young. The print was terrible, because I remember everything was really hard to see. I think it was on the 4:00 Million Dollar movie, that amazing Metro-New York equivalent of TCM before cable.
With help from my older brother, I followed the story. I felt so sad for Gypo Nolan because he was this big, unloved guy, and everything he tried went wrong. It really affected me, getting the first inklings of how the world can be cold, harsh place for some people.
I have neve watched it again. Reading about it now, I should.
As for The Quiet Man, "Homeric"!
2 years ago
As George Fasel, Lance and even Jim Wolcott all state, Ford was more of a classicist than anything. There is a formal beauty and structure to this film that I don't think another filmmaker could have managed.
M.A., this film is rarely shown as a St. Patrick's Day tribute, most likely because it is, as you note, depressing as hell. One of my private parlor games is "Fantasy Double Feature," and I think this movie would play nicely on a bill with the similarly underrated "Cal," another movie about a doomed Irishman. (Also has a great performance by Helen Mirren.) While it would not be a jolly St. Paddy's evening, it would drive the viewers to drink as surely as "The Quiet Man." "Ah, the stories I could tell ye ... but me throat, me throat!"
2 years ago
"If you had the luck o'the Irish, you'd be sorry and wish you were dead....
If you had the luck o'the Irish, you would wish you was English instead."
The melancholy is as worth preserving as the green Budweiser - more so!
The Quiet Man is the Ireland we all wish existed, I think. Who wouldn't want to live in Innisfree?
2 years ago