The Michael Mann Movie before There Was A Michael Mann: 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'

posted by Jett Loe

Cris-crossing two-timing cops and robbers.  Worn out old pros.  Finks, snitches, the snitch and the snitchee. Crime capers so detailed, so clear and framed so fantastic they’re a how-to manual for those on the slippery slope.

‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ is a Michael Mann film before there was a Michael Mann.  It’s a 70′s ‘Thief’, a low-rent, down on its luck ‘Heat’.

Richard Jordan as a cop.

Peter Boyle as scum.

Steven Keats as the movie star he never became.

…and Robert Mitchum in the role he was born for: Eddie Coyle.

In the words of the trailer above: “It’s a grubby violent dangerous world, but it’s the only world they know.”  You’ll know that world too when you rent ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’.

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Some Came Running

The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Pullquote

“No movie has offered a truer view of Boston” – The Friends of Eddie Coyle at The Boston Globe

The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Criterion

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