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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

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Date: 7 Apr 2015 14:15:00
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Booklet | 01:42:10 | 6,81 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps + Commentary track | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama | The Criterion Collection #475

Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan

In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking - a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.

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Someone remarks of Eddie, about halfway through "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," that for a two-bit hood, he has fingers in a lot of pies. Too many, as it turns out. Without ever rising to the top, Eddie has been employed in organized crime for most of his life. He's kind of a utility infielder, ready to trade in some hot guns, drive a hijacked truck, or generally make himself useful.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

Eddie got the nickname "Fingers" some years ago after a gun deal. The buyers he supplied got caught. Their friends slammed Eddie's fingers in a drawer. He understood. There is a certain code without which it would be simply impossible to go on doing business.

But as the movie opens, Eddie is in trouble, and it looks like he'll have to break the code. He's facing a two-year stretch in New Hampshire, and he wants out of it. He doesn't want to leave his wife and kids and see them go on welfare. He is, at heart, just a small businessman; he deals in crime but is profoundly middle class. He thinks maybe he can make a deal with the state's attorney and have a few good words put in for him up in New Hampshire.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

The movie is as simple as that. It's not a high-strung gangster film, it doesn't have a lot of overt excitement in it, and it doesn't go in for much violence. He gives us a man, invites our sympathy for him, and then watches almost sadly as his time runs out. And "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" works so well because Eddie is played by Robert Mitchum, and Mitchum has perhaps never been better.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

He has always been one of our best screen actors: sardonic, masculine, quick-witted, but slow to reveal himself. He has never been in an absolutely great film; he doesn't have masterpieces behind him like Brando or Cary Grant. More than half his films have been conventional action melodramas, and it is a rare summer without at least one movie in which Mitchum wears a sombrero and lights bombs with his cigar. But give him a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is wonderful. Eddie Coyle is made for him: 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.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

The movie is drawn from a knowledgeable novel by George V. Higgins, himself a state's attorney, and has been directed by one of the masters of this sort of thing, Peter Yates ("Robbery," "Bullitt"). Paul Monash's screenplay stays close to the real-life Massachusetts texture of the novel, and the dialogue sounds right. The story isn't developed in the usual movie way, with lots of importance being given to intricacies of plot; instead, Eddie's dilemma occurs to him as it occurs to us, and we watch him struggle with it.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

If the movie has a flaw, it's that we don't really care that much about the bank robberies that are counterpointed with Eddie's situation. We're interested in him. We can get the bank robberies in any summer's caper picture. It's strange that a movie's interest should fall off during its action scenes. But this is Eddie Coyle's picture, and Mitchum's.
Rober Ebert's Review
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

How many times have you heard that overused cliche, "neglected masterpiece?" Well, here's a chance to truly discover (or revisit) one, while savoring one of Robert Mitchum's best screen performances. Director Peter Yates didn't do his Hollywood career any favors by directing this ultra-realistic, anti-romantic, anti-action actioner about a low-level Boston hood whose luck - if he had any to begin with - has finally run out. Unrelievedly depressing, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has the ring of absolute truth about it, making heretofore regarded "semi-documentary" thrillers like The French Connection look positively glossy and contrived by comparison. Nothing is glamorized here. Nothing is cathartic here. Nothing is resolved here. And nothing, ultimately, is valued here, either. One of the grimmest, most bleak depictions of American criminal life ever found in a big-studio release. Not just one of the best crime films ever produced, but one of the best American films of any category of the 1970s. Thanks to Criterion's usual high standards, it looks better than ever here. The Friends of Eddie Coyle gets DVDTalk's highest rating: the DVD Talk Collector Series.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) [The Criterion Collection #475] [Re-UP]

Edition Details:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Peter Yates
- Audio commentary featuring Yates
- Stills gallery
- 42-page liner notes booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone

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