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- 102 Minutes
- Paramount Pictures
- Language English with English subtitles
- Country USA
- Rated: R
- Format: Widescreen Criterion Collection
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- Directed by Peter Yates
- Written by Paul Monash
- Starring Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Robert Mitchum, Steven Keats
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie "Fingers" Coyle in Peter Yates's film 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. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking -- a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
"Paul Monash's screenplay stays close to the real-life Massachusetts texture of the novel, and the dialogue sounds right." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
(Read more)- More on The Friends of Eddie Coyle:
- Profile of director Peter Yates
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