Robert Mitchum as Eddie Coyle from The Friends of Eddie Coyle against a background with the Rotten Tomatoes logo
The Big Picture Life often imitates art. The all but forgotten neo-noir thriller, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, is an often overlooked '70s masterpiece. After years of playing tough guys and hard-boiled detectives, the effortlessly cool enigma that was Robert Mitchum gave one of his best and most underrated performances as a downtrodden Bostonian, who was miles away from the merciless Hollywood star fans had come to love and fear.
Release Date June 26, 1973 Director Peter Yates Cast Robert Mitchum , Peter Boyle , Richard Jordan , Steven Keats , Alex Rocco , Joe Santos , Mitchell Ryan , Peter MacLean Runtime 102 Minutes Main Genre Crime Writers George V. Higgins , Paul Monash Studio Paramount Pictures Expand What Is 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' About? Robert Mitchum stars as middle-aged gunrunner, Eddie Coyle, an embittered Bostonian who is mixed up with the local Irish mob.
The robberies happen in a parallel storyline to Eddie's as the film unfolds, and begins to turn ugly after a particularly grizzly robbery that ends with a murder. It's one of the film's most intense, violent scenes, that adds a much-needed thrill to the mundanity of Coyle’s life. In 2009, the robberies would go on to share a striking similarity to an actual real-life robbery.
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