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
In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.
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.
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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
- Screenplay
- Dudley Nichols
- Production
- Cliff Reid · RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
- Cinematography
- Joseph H. August
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