Watch The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973) Free Online

Release Date: 1973

Cast: Alex Rocco, Steven Keats, Mitchell Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Marvin Lichterman, Joe Santos, Peter MacLean, Richard Jordan, Peter Boyle

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Thriller, Crime Drama

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 of the same name by George V. Higgins. It was released on DVD for the first time from The Criterion Collection on May 19, 2009. The book has also been adapted into a stage play by Bill Doncaster; Stickball Productions held a staged reading in Somerville, Massachusetts, on November 13, 2010, and launched a full production in December, 2011. Eddie Coyle is an aging, low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts. He... MORE

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 of the same name by George V. Higgins. It was released on DVD for the first time from The Criterion Collection on May 19, 2009. The book has also been adapted into a stage play by Bill Doncaster; Stickball Productions held a staged reading in Somerville, Massachusetts, on November 13, 2010, and launched a full production in December, 2011. Eddie Coyle is an aging, low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts. He is facing several years in prison for a truck hijacking in New Hampshire set up by Dillon, who owns a local bar. Coyle's last chance is a sentencing recommendation from an ATF agent, Dave Foley, who demands that Coyle become an informer in return. A gang led by Jimmy Scalise and Artie Van has been pulling a series of robberies in broad daylight at local banks, Coyle having supplied them with guns. Another gun runner, Jackie Brown, is in popular demand. Coyle wants to buy more pistols from him while a hippie couple is shopping for machine guns. Jackie goes to great lengths to get Coyle what he LESS