The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Eddie Coyle is an ex-gangster who wants to make a fresh start and doesn't want to live in prison anymore. Unfortunately, the bob tries to pull him over while the police wants him to be their informant. Now, it's time for Eddie to choose his ultimate path in life.
25 May 1916, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
18 October 1935, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
9 June 1931, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1938, California, USA
12 May 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1946, New York City, New York, USA
18 August 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 January 1928, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
16 March 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 July 1948, Richfield, Minnesota, USA
6 August 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
19 July 1937, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1936, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
20 March 1948, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
20 June 1931, Calumet, Michigan, USA
28 September 1944, New York City, New York, USA
30 January 1943, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
29 February 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
10 May 1941, Newark, New Jersey, USA
13 November 1928, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
6 February 1945, The Bronx, New York, USA
8 November 1942, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
May 22, 2009
Though the picture doesn't really establish itself as any kind of masterpiece, it's a very, very good example of gritty 1970s Hollywood filmmaking.
April 28, 2015
[An] un-romanticized portrayal of organized crime ... In Coyle, the heists don't go according to plan, the gun dealers are teenagers or junkies, and mob hits are messy affairs.
October 11, 2010
Great icon-smashing and icon-making all in one.
May 19, 2009
... [Robert] Mitchum is at his best as a tired professional still hustling because it's all he knows.
January 29, 2010
Mitchums low-key performance as a total schlemiel is one of his finest.
February 02, 2016
Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller.
November 17, 2013
Deep weariness and disappointment hover in every gesture and line reading, especially when [Robert Mitchum] manages to get off a funny remark
June 30, 2009
a slow burn crime thriller that may lack flash, but is heavy with presence
March 23, 2009
Mitchum's true swan song
June 08, 2011
Laced with a fatalism as romantic as its Beantown milieu is damp and grungy.
May 18, 2009
It's a slug's-eye view of autumnal Greater Boston, remote when not sleazy; even when Mitchum and Boyle attend a Bruins hockey game, it's in the nosebleed seats.
July 09, 2011
Peter Yates' crime drama is chock-full of wonderful moments, creative framing (especially an intrusion in a bank teller's home early on in the proceedings), and emotional punch.
