this amazing oscar winner ( 4 in total ) and john ford first academy award winner and be simply spellbind with a pound score by max steiner . call an art film and because ford have very little money to make this great story about guilt and retribution and and greed and stupidity . but what make this movie such a classic and be the direction and astound photography and use of fog and lighting and that be so different from the usual american film and and more in the tradition of german expressionism . and the oscar win performance by victor mclaglen a the drunken gypo be simply unbelievable . basically the movie take place in ireland and and gypo turn in a friend in the rebel movement to the english to collect 20 pound to give to his girlfriend . but have all that money and he start blow it on an all night drunk and give it away and while the leader of the movement be try to track down the informer . the whole movie be one night in a dark and foggy ireland and and a cast of character that be memorable but all along and the whole world of gypo be close in on him and both psychologically . if i have to pick maybe three director to have all their movie on a deserted island forever and and nobody elses and john ford would certainly be one of them . what a truly remarkable movie .