THE STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4741, 3 September 1935, Page 4

THE STATE THEATRE

“THE INFORMER.” The self-wrought destruction of the primitive Irish giant whose life furnishes the theme for RKO-Radio’s “The Informer,” pictures dramatically at the State Theatre to-night and Wednesday, the fact that the atavistic brute has no place in a modern society, and inevitably harbours the instruments of his own doom. Portrayed by Victor McLaglen, Gypo Nolan, the savage Irishman who wages a lone battle against the world in the screen play from Liam O’Flaherty’s novel of the same name, batters himself against the unyieldof his people. For money enough to satisfy the desires of the blonde woman he loves, Nolan betrays a friend. The realisation of the import of his crime at last force him to reveal his guilt and make the inevitable payment for an act considered by his fellow Irishmen as the most despicable of sins. In this tale which tells with searching humour and vital tragedy of the inevitable self-annihilation of the brute, Victor McLaglen receives powerful support from a cast that includes Margot Grahame, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Una O’Connor and Wallace Ford.