Academy Award Theater: The Informer (009) | Drama

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The Informer is based on the 1935 movie by the same name. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols from the novel The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty. It was directed by John Ford. The radio broadcast originally aired May 25, 1946. It is the ninth episode in the Academy Awards Theater series.

The plot concerns the underside of the Irish Civil War set in 1922. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O’Connor and J.M. Kerrigan. McLaglen, Grahame, Ford, and Kerrigan reprise their roles in this radio episode.

The Informer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Leading Actor, beating out Charles Laughton and Clark Gable for the better-remembered Mutiny on the Bounty. Ford won for Best Director. Dudley Nichols won the Oscar for Best Writing, but turned it down because of Union disagreements. It was the first time an Oscar was declined.

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