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The Informer, the 1929 Arthur Robison English IRA Ireland betrayal melodrama starring Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord, Dennis Wyndham, and Janice Adair. Note that this movie is silent for the first 45 minutes, and then becomes a talking picture! This certainly could have been done intentionally, but it seems far more likely that filming of it began as a silent, and then when it was realized that silent movies were pretty doomed, they switched to filming the remainder as a talkie (which was especially tough on the two leads, see below). Note that this movie was remade in 1935 by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen and Heather Angel, and it seems likely that John Ford was strongly influenced by this movie, because there are many similarities. Both Lya De Putti and Lars Hanson gave excellent performances, but their heavy accents were difficult for U.S. audiences (De Putti's was so strong that her dialog in the sound portion of the movie was dubbed), and both of their U.S. careers were brought to a swift end by the coming of sound.
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Important Added Info: Note that first release movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item of any kind from the movie, before we were consigned this herald!

Please note that Uruguayan heralds, like Spanish heralds, were printed in large quantities, and then sent to individual theaters in Uruguay, and they would have the backs of them overprinted or stamped with their theater name and specific play dates. But because a movie might play in Uruguay for a period of a year or two (traveling from theater to theater), there is no guarantee that the date overprinted on the back of the herald is the same as the date that the herald was first printed (and the date that the movie first played in Uruguay). We strongly suspect that most movies did not reach Uruguay until a year or two after their first release in other countries, but we can't say for certain.

Therefore, we don't list the date overprinted on the back of a herald as the date of the herald (or the date of the movie's first release in Uruguay) unless we know from some other source that the later year was when the movie first played in Uruguay. If it is important to you that the date on the herald is the same date as when the movie first played in its country of origin, then please look at our image of the back of this herald to see if there is a different date printed on it.

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