The Informer (1935 film) film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning four. McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered "Mutiny on the Bounty", and Ford won Best Director. Dudley Nichols won Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, but turned it down because of union disagreements. It was the first time an Oscar was declined, though he later claimed it three years later. The film also won the Oscar for Best Score; Max Steiner won for the first time. The film was nominated for Outstanding Production, as well as for Best
Charles Laughton wound up being cut and replaced with another featuring Dorothy Lamour, and in this form the film was retitled as "On Our Merry Way". However, an original print of "A Miracle Can Happen" was sent abroad for dubbing before the Laughton sequence was deleted, and in this form it was shown in Spain as "Una Encuesta Llamada Milagro". Laughton made his first colour film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" (1949) and, wrote the "Monthly Film Bulletin", "appeared to overact" alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis