Synopsis
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) is a crime drama directed by Peter Yates that you can watch online on iFILM. Robert Mitchum plays Eddie Coyle — a small-time Boston hood staring down another prison stretch, trying to keep his family off welfare without getting himself killed.
Eddie's plan has two moving parts that both feel like suicide. He feeds information on illegal gun dealers to a federal agent, while at the same time supplying weapons to a crew pulling bank robberies around the city. Peter Boyle plays Dillon, a bartender and professional fixer whose calm makes him the most dangerous man in the room. Based on George V. Higgins's 1970 novel, the film strips away every shred of mob glamour — what's left is exhausted men making terrible decisions in parking lots and diners.
Routinely cited among the finest American crime films of the 1970s, The Friends of Eddie Coyle offers bleak, unglamorous thriller filmmaking at its best. Stream it online on iFILM.
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