Film History at Naas Library Screening - The Informer
Join us at Naas Library & Cultural Centre as we celebrate the history of cinema with a season of monthly film screenings. This programme is curated by our own (also author/film historian) Wayne Byrne in honour of our premises’ past as the Naas Town Hall Cinema, with a series of films programmed from the era in which the building operated as a popular picture house from 1902 to 1940. One Friday per month we will screen feature films released across those four decades, from silent epics to early talkies, from musicals to comedies, crime to horror, adventures to westerns.
Screening on Friday 6th June at 2.30pm is John Ford’s Oscar-winning 1935 dramatic adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel The Informer. Set in 1922 Dublin, Victor McLaglen plays disgraced Republican Gypo Nolan, a poor ex-army officer who decides to anonymously betray his friend to the British authorities in return for a reward after his girlfriend is reduced to taking up prostitution for money, but the guilt of the treachery is too much for Gypo’s conscience to bear.
The film is another great entry in the canon of original auteur, John Ford, whose familial and spiritual connection to Ireland informed many of his works, but here, as later with The Quiet Man, the country provides the grand stage on which the master director crafts his intimate conflicts, both political and personal.
So, come along and celebrate the history of Cinema and the legacy of the Town Hall with this exciting retrospective programme, a rare opportunity to see these films on the big screen.
Join us for tea and coffee before the feature presentation!