Film

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Director
Peter Yates
Certificate
15
Running Time
103 mins

Peter Yates, the Brit director of the classic Bullitt, directs Robert Mitchum in this downbeat crime drama adapted from the novel by George V. Higgins.

Mitchum plays the eponymous low-level Boston mobster who turns stoolie to avoid a long jail sentence and then finds himself pursued relentlessly by his former criminal associates. Suitably grimy and gritty, this is one of most overlooked crime flicks of the 1970s.

By robin askew, Friday, Dec 21 2018

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  • Drama

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