Robert Mitchum
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle
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- R1973 · Crime drama · 1h 40m
The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American neo-noir [1] 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 .
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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Peter Yates
- 1973-06-27
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. Its central character is the title character Eddie Coyle, a small-time criminal and informant.
- George V. Higgins
- 1970
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. Eddie...
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- Peter Yates
- R
- Robert Mitchum
Reviews. The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Roger Ebert June 27, 1973. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
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. 737 IMDb 7.4 1 h 42 min 1973. X-Ray R. Action · Drama · Bleak · Gritty. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $4.19. Buy movie.
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. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet.
