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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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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.
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.
Nov 2, 2009 · The Friends of Eddie Coyle examines the dilemma of a man without options. Boston crook Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) faces a two-year minimum jail sentence for transporting stolen goods; the Mob has offered him no legal assistance.
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.
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
But it's the only world they know. And they're the only friends Eddie has. 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.