What to expect
John Ford’s expressionistic drama won four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen, while turning betrayal into a study of fear, guilt, and unstable belonging.
How to ease in
Stay close to Gypo rather than trying to master every faction immediately. His body, money, and changing behaviour reveal the betrayal before the surrounding investigation closes in.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes betrayal, political violence, firearms, alcohol, poverty, death, and intense psychological distress.
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Gypo wants one act to remain secret while everything he does gives it a new shape. I watch guilt become visible before confession can become possible.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster
- Screenplay
- Dudley Nichols
- Production
- Cliff Reid · RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
- Cinematography
- Joseph H. August
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