The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | |
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| Directed by | Peter Yates |
| Produced by | Paul Monash |
| Written by | Paul Monash George V. Higgins (novel) |
| Starring | Robert Mitchum Peter Boyle |
| Music by | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
| Editing by | Patricia Lewis Jaffe |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  June 26, 1973 |
| Running time | 103 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins.
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[edit] Plot
Eddie Coyle is an aging, low-level gunrunner for the Irish Mob in Boston, Massachusetts. Facing several years in prison, he decides to become an informant for the ATF.
The mob finds out that Eddie is talking to the police, so they assign his best friend, Dillon, to kill him. However, before carrying out his orders, Dillon treats his friend to a night on the town, taking him to dinner and a Bruins hockey game.
[edit] Cast
- Robert Mitchum as Eddie "Fingers" Coyle
- Peter Boyle as Dillon
- Richard Jordan as Dave Foley
- Steven Keats as Jackie Brown
- Alex Rocco as Jimmy Scalise
[edit] Production
Filming took place throughout the Boston area, including Dedham, Cambridge, Milton, Quincy, Sharon, Somerville and Weymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
[edit] Reception
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle" was well-reviewed on its initial release and continues to be among the most highly regarded crime films of the 1970s. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it four stars, his highest rating, while Vincent Canby of The New York Times also reviewed it favorably, calling it "a good, tough, unsentimental movie."[1] Both reviewers singled out Mitchum's lead performance as a key ingredient of the film's success. Ebert wrote: "Eddie Coyle is made for [Mitchum]: a weary middle-aged man, but tough and proud; a man who has been hurt too often in life not to respect pain; a man who will take chances to protect his own territory."[2] As of March 2008, the film has never been officially released on DVD, and it frequently appears on critics' "wish lists" of films that ought to be released in that medium.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Filming Locations for The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
[edit] External links
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle at the Internet Movie Database
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Allmovie
- Review at Starpulse
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