Jandy Hardesty’s review published on Letterboxd:
This was SO EXPRESSIONIST. I totally didn't expect that. For some reason I don't associate Ford with that, but then The Grapes of Wrath has a lot of fabulous chiaroscuro as well. But this is like M transposed to Ireland, except with an informer instead of child murderer, which admittedly, not as horrible but still gets him in a heap of trouble with "the organization" (which I think is resistance of some sort, but comes off like an underworld mafia).
The photographer is fantastic - the shot of the betrayed man caught by the police is not leaving my memory for a very long time. McLaglen is intense (and won an Oscar for his trouble), but some of the drunken profligance goes on too long.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Informer > The Three Faces of Eve
The Informer < Dogma
The Informer < Red Dust
The Informer < The Bourne Ultimatum
The Informer > Cache
The Informer > Giant
The Informer > Sheik
The Informer > The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Informer > Forbidden
The Informer > Crack-Up
The Informer > Look Both Ways
The Informer < Dear Frankie
Final #1543 out of 3524