Sunday, November 10, 2019
Informers....they are sure different the they used to be.
One of the seminal works in the oeuvre of the great Director John Ford. Won best actor for Victor McLaglen and best director for Ford. A story of the IRA and an informer who sold out a patriot for money.
Gypo Nolan informs on a fellow IRA member for twenty pounds in order to use the money for passage to America for him and his streetwalker girlfriend. Of course being Irish he gets drunk and throws the money away buying drinks in a bar. The IRA gets wind of it and holds the trial you see in the clip. (Notice you can't be an IRA guy unless you have a cool trench coat) Eventually Gypo escapes but the IRA finds him and kills him.
Now we have a story of an informer. They call him a whistle-blower. A card carrying member of the Deep State who worked for that commie Brennan he made up a bogus statement based on second hand knowledge. He coordinated with the Intelligence committee staff and Congressman Shit for Brains and started the impeachment ball rolling. Everybody knows his name but we have to pretend that we don't because they claim his life is in danger.
Well we know it is not but it should be. Snitches get stitches. We need him to testify under oath so everyone can see how he is part of the Deep State plot.
Then he should get the Gypo Nolan treatment.
They can even give him an Academy Award.
Posthumously.
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Wow, McGlaglen was good! You don't see that humanity in actors anymore.
At about 1:14 where Victor McLaglen reaches his hand out towards Joe Sawyer's character Barty, sees the gun, which then disappears back into Barty's pocket is impressive - poor Gypo comes unglued right then and there. Good acting.
Then at about 2:50 where Gypo is trying to decide which fate he wants to choose, he glances down at Barty's pocket again, just for a split second, and he knows the deal.
We need more justice like that around here.
I used to have a trench coat, but I lost that and my boots during my divorce.
Ciaramella isn't even a real informer, just a rumor monger.
Like some old woman.
Which, of course, suggests a more fitting punishment.
They can do a remake, change the character to Seth Rich.
Victor was my old man's favorite actor.
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