Victor McLaglen delivers a harrowing performance as Gypo Nolan, a roistering brute during Ireland's 1922 Sinn Fein uprising, who fingers friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford) to collect a reward, then promptly fritters away the money on one night of revelry. After British troops kill Frankie, the Sinn Fein proceeds to even the score with Nolan. Director John Ford nabbed an Oscar, as did leading man McLaglen, for this atmospheric drama.