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The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American neo-noir crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle and directed by Peter Yates. The screenplay by Paul Monash was adapted from the 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, published in 1970, is the debut novel of George V. Higgins, then an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston. The novel is a realistic depiction of the Irish-American underworld in Boston.
Aging Boston gunrunner Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is looking at several years of jail time for a hold-up if he doesn't funnel information to Dave Foley (Richard Jordan), an ATF agent.
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Jun 27, 1973 · The Friends of Eddie Coyle: Directed by Peter Yates. With Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats. After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle. A weapons dealer is forced to make a deal with the government to become an informant on his crime family bosses in this classic crime drama starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle and Richard Jordan. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
Peter Yates's THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is a masterpiece! A crime procedural with an emphasis more on characters & dialogue than creating action spectacles. Top-notch photography & a colorful cast of characters, led by an extraordinary performance from Robert Mitchum.
Apr 27, 2010 · When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen--that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river?
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Someone remarks of Eddie, about halfway through “The Friends of Eddie Coyle,” that for a two-bit hood, he has fingers in a lot of pies. Too many, as it turns out. Without ever rising to the top, Eddie has been employed in organized crime for most of his life.
Apr 29, 2015 · There's not a punch thrown, and only two fatal shots are fired, but this seemingly artless film leaves a deeper impression of dog-eat-dog brutality than many of the blood-soaked extravaganzas that preceded it and have come in its wake. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is, in many ways, an inside job.
