Robert Mitchum
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle
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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.
Jun 27, 1973 · A crime drama film based on a novel by George V. Higgins, starring Robert Mitchum as a low level Boston gangster who snitches on his friends to avoid prison. The film depicts the gritty, violent and corrupt world of organized crime in Boston in the 1970s.
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- Crime, Drama
- Peter Yates
- 1973-06-27
A 1973 crime drama starring Robert Mitchum as a two-bit hood who faces a prison sentence and tries to make a deal with the state's attorney. Roger Ebert praises Mitchum's performance and the realistic dialogue, but criticizes the bank robbery scenes.
Steven Keats. Jackie Brown. Alex Rocco. Jimmy Scalise. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Aging Boston gunrunner Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is looking at several years of jail time for...
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- Peter Yates
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- Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum stars as a small-time gunrunner in this 1973 crime drama based on George V. Higgins's novel. Directed by Peter Yates, the film features a sharp script, a gritty Boston setting, and a commentary by the director.
- Eddie Coyle
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.
A film that adheres to its own codes and vision and chooses to rely on its actors’ talent and the script’s strength instead of cheap spectacle, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime films of a decade that gave us so many cinematic treats of this particular genre.
