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It's a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it's the only world they know. And they're the only friends Eddie has...

SYNOPSIS:

Peter Yates, the Oscar-nominated director of riveting crime classics Robbery and Bullitt, teamed up with the incomparable Robert Mitchum for an unforgettable excursion into Boston's criminal underworld.

Based on the acclaimed novel by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle follows an ageing gunrunner's troubles at the peripheries of the local mob once he finds his options split disastrously between the threat of a fresh prison sentence or police cooperation.

One of the best, most unexpected gangster films of the 1970s, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a gripping tale of low-lives and loyalties, presented with the director's trademark authenticity and naturalism, and an extraordinary array of performances, led by a never-better Mitchum. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this masterpiece for the first time on home video in the UK in a Blu Ray edition.

BLU RAY FEATURES including:

Restored, high-definition digital transfer
Uncompressed monaural sound
A new video appreciation of the film by critic Glenn Kenny
A 1996 career-spanning on-stage interview with Peter Yates hosted by critic Derek Malcolm
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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''Robert Mitchum has perhaps never been better ★★★★ '' --Roger Ebert

''a good, tough, unsentimental movie'' --New York Times

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9 - 1.85:1
Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 14 x 1 cm; 83.16 g
Item model number ‏ : ‎ EKA70180
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Yates
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 42 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 25 Jan. 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Alex Rocco, Peter Boyle, Robert Mitchum
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Eureka Entertainment Limited
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017RI573M
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
Best Sellers Rank: 8,430 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
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Customers consider this film one of the best in crime genre, praising Mitchum's performance as Eddie Coyle and its realistic portrayal of Boston criminal elements. The movie receives positive feedback for its authentic feel and natural-looking scenes. The pacing receives mixed reactions, with several customers finding it slow.

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44 customers mention quality, 38 positive, 6 negative

Customers praise the movie's quality, describing it as a classic and one of the best films on crime, with one customer noting its gritty Boston setting.

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A great film!Read more

Good film.Mitchum at his best.Read more

16 customers mention cast, 16 positive, 0 negative

Customers praise the cast, particularly Robert Mitchum's performance as Eddie Coyle, with one customer noting Peter Boyle's superb acting.

A good gritty, 70's criminal, caper, underworld film, with a great cast, that introduced the world to Christopher Walken.Read more

Good film. Mitchum at his bestRead more

...the directorial talent of Peter Yates and to Mitchum and his excellent supporting cast - being based on George V. Higgins' first novel did no harm...Read more

...The cast are excellent,with Peter Boyle as always superb, as Dillon,devious and deadly! . A great film!Read more

11 customers mention thriller, 11 positive, 0 negative

Customers describe this film as a great thriller, with one review noting its excellent depiction of Boston criminal elements, while another describes it as a gritty Boston crime film that shows the underworld as bleak and mean.

Great thriller with Robert mitchum great storyRead more

...dialogue, not too much in the way of violence or "action", but brutal and gripping all the same....Read more

...people trapped in the web of deceit which add up to make a classic crime caper....Read more

...the vault's time lock to open was superbly executed, creating moments of Hitchcockian suspense....Read more

7 customers mention realism, 7 positive, 0 negative

Customers appreciate the film's realism, with one noting how everything feels authentic to its time period.

...Screenwriter Paul Monash gives the cast gritty, realistic,earthy dialogue. Okay, a tad bit dated, but we are forty years down the line....Read more

...Yates,but its the autumnal feel and the Boston locations, the genuine sleazy feel of desperate people trapped in the web of deceit which add up to...Read more

A 70's cult classic. Everything about this film feels authentic of its time. This review is for the region 1 criterion dvd....Read more

...The first thing to say about this film is that it has an authentic feel - it's almost as if the viewer is an invisible observer looking in on the...Read more

6 customers mention image quality, 6 positive, 0 negative

Customers appreciate the image quality of the movie, noting that the scenes look natural, with one customer highlighting the fine camerawork.

Peter Yates' early 1970s classic is a must view pictiure for any film fan who enjoys truly enticing and suirreal movies. Highly recommendedRead more

...Robert Mitchum gave a good (as usual) performance making scenes look natural, unforced and realistic....Read more

...The dual format blu-Ray and DVD gives a nice, clear, decent image with uncompressed soundtrack....Read more

...It's Mitchum's film though - a perfect depiction of a man who has lived his life as a criminal, yet never made it 'big' and is now facing a second...Read more

5 customers mention pacing, 2 positive, 3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the movie, with some finding it slow.

Slow, boring and kinda stupid.Read more

...The film, as with Yates's other thrillers, moves along with great pace, and there's a nice twist to the story, which you may guess, but is only...Read more

...Slow-moving film but I quite liked the various characters within the story (such as it was) and it just had enough momentum to keep me interested...Read more

A gritty, bleak, slow-paced gangster film that only the 70s could have producedRead more

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Harold Shand
"With friends like you.........
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2016
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This is a film I've read about in film guides, and have wanted to see for a number of years, I wasn't disappointed. Directed by British director Peter Yates, director of "Bullitt" and "Robbery", and in my opinion the under rated "Krull", delivers one of the great American crime thrillers of the 1970s. Robert Mitchum in the lead, gives I think a great performance as the low life criminal. The supporting cast is all good to excellent, especially Peter Boyle, with many familiar faces of American 70s character actors. Screenwriter Paul Monash gives the cast gritty, realistic,earthy dialogue. Okay, a tad bit dated, but we are forty years down the line. The film, as with Yates's other thrillers, moves along with great pace, and there's a nice twist to the story, which you may guess, but is only confirmed in the final scenes. I even felt a certain sympathy towards Mitchum's character towards the finale. I guess, that means, at risk of repeating myself, how good Mitchum is. Together with " The Yakuza" ( that's a must see too of 70s American crime thrillers) and " Farewell my lovely " Mitchum made some of his finest work in the autumn of his career. All I can say is, with a jazz orentainted soundtrack, which is great too, the film is one of the best, but a bit overlooked crime noir thrillers of the 1970s. The dual format blu-Ray and DVD gives a nice, clear, decent image with uncompressed soundtrack. Entertaining, and will certainly demand repeated viewings.
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mihos
Another classic from Peter Yates.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2016
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Director Petet Yates conjures up a visceral,taut film based on the novel by George V Higgins. Eddie Coyle(Mitchum) is a minor league hood,involved in illegal gun dealing, who already has a suspended charge hanging over him,which would involve another prison sentence ,and, being in late middle-age with a wife and children tries to make a deal with the authorities.to as its put "help Uncle Sam" in other words,to become informer. There are some great set pieces,notably the robberies and the stake-out at the railway station handled with the flair of Peter Yates,but its the autumnal feel and the Boston locations, the genuine sleazy feel of desperate people trapped in the web of deceit which add up to make a classic crime caper.The cast are excellent,with Peter Boyle as always superb, as Dillon,devious and deadly! . A great film!
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Noodles
A gritty, bleak, slow-paced gangster film that only the 70s could have produced
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2025
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A gangster film that avoids almost all the spectacular scenes and shows the underworld as bleak and mean. Probably one of Mitchum's best performances, but the other actors deliver too. Less famous than the Scorsese mob films, but after watching it, you just can't understand why!
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Og Oggilby
Mitchum great as always, in a downbeat gem of a movie...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2010
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Talk about 'blink and you'll miss it'; this film sank without trace on release, and this excellent Criterion Collection DVD I had to buy from Amazon marketplace. Don't matter how you get it, this is a tremendous film, and like many of the best 1970s movies, it bristles with a palpable tension under a surface where everything seems low-key. Robert Mitchum supplies an understated performance that is as careworn and lived in as his face. His 'Eddie Coyle' is brow-beaten and surfing the scum alongside a bunch of unsympathetic characters who never get above the gutter. And yet, for all its lack of shoot-'em-up action, is an intesnely rewarding watch, and has got better with age. Other reviewers have gone into more detail, so I won't repeat what they say, other than to recommend that you watch and enjoy this absorbing and quietly poignant film.
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Roger Shallot
Mitchum on Top Form In a Superior Seventies Crime Thriller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2016
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It surprises me now that I didn't see this film until it was over forty years old - I'll have to make up for that with a few more viewings. I also saw 'The Yakuza' for the first time recently and it reminded me what a class act Robert Mitchum could be. Knowing relatively little about 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' until I noticed that it had been released as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, I thought it might be worth a look.
The first thing to say about this film is that it has an authentic feel - it's almost as if the viewer is an invisible observer looking in on the shady deals and conversations taking place in the early 1970s Boston underworld. That is down to the directorial talent of Peter Yates and to Mitchum and his excellent supporting cast - being based on George V. Higgins' first novel did no harm either. Peter Boyle, Robert Jordan, Steven Keats and Alex Rocco are all excellent here, and the minor supporting characters fit in seamlessly as well. It's Mitchum's film though - a perfect depiction of a man who has lived his life as a criminal, yet never made it 'big' and is now facing a second jail term. It's a tremendous performance, portraying a man who has been bad but is by no means wholly evil, lives in a dangerous world yet has a family and bills to pay just like anybody else. As the film progresses Eddie becomes increasingly desperate in his attempts to avoid another spell in prison and the 'game' becomes more perilous.
Great dialogue, not too much in the way of violence or "action", but brutal and gripping all the same. There aren't many laughs here but this is a lesson in fine film-making and one or two modern directors - and actors - might well benefit from seeing how good a "crime thriller" can be.
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One of the best films starring Robert Mitchum in his late period
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2016
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle shares some irony with the Spanish title and the English soundtrack is flawless. One of the best films starring Robert Mitchum in his late period, he is convincing as a washed-up gun dealer about to be sacrificed by his cold-blooded criminal associates. The cops aren't his friends, either, but deceivers manipulating him to turn informer without offering anything concrete in return. Like Blind Pugh with his black spot, Eddie knows his fate is sealed, no matter how he twists and turns. He's simply too far down the food-chain for anyone to give a damn, though when he's finally shot near the end of the film it's with an almighty bang.
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Billyjo
With friends like these, who needs enemies.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2026
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A good gritty, 70's criminal, caper, underworld film, with a great cast, that introduced the world to Christopher Walken.
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Alyson Allgood
Grimly fiendish
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2025
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Bought for a friend's birthday.
Has gone down well with my horror enthusiast mate, so much so they're onto volume 2.
Arrived quickly.
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Anthony Gatto
Great Buy!
Reviewed in Canada on 15 November 2024
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Awesome crime thriller!! Really surprised with this one, highly recommend!
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Un piccolo capolavoro
Reviewed in Italy on 16 October 2018
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Tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di George V. Higgins, "Gli amici di Eddie Coyle" è un piccolo gioiello degli anni '70. E' ambientato nel sottobosco criminale di Boston in cui Robert Mitchum interpreta la parte di un piccolo contrabbandiere d'armi che a fatica riesce a sbarcare il lunario e si trova a un certo punto costretto a scegliere tra l'essere leale ai suoi colleghi criminali o tradirli per evitare la prigione. Magnifica l'interpretazione di Mitchum ma ottimi anche Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco tra gli altri. Ottima la regia di Peter Yates.
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matirene
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Reviewed in Spain on 27 November 2015
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Un espléndido trabajo de Robert que llena la película.
Muy triste aunque con un final previsible, recomendada y muy desconocida...
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Gaston
Magnifiquement NOUARR
Reviewed in France on 9 January 2025
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The friends of Eddie CoyLe, film noir des seventies avec un Robert Mitchum au sommet de sa grâce et une brochette de seconds rôLes plus justes les uns que les autres. Je n'insiste pas sur Les rutiLantes voitures de Lâge d'or de Motor City Detroit qui ajoutent encore au charme. Évidemment triste et alcooLisé puisque NOUARR.
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grim and gripping existential drama
Reviewed in the United States on 15 May 2010
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this is one of those individualistic and remarkable films that for some reason has slipped under or past the usual critical and viewer recommendations -- hat tip to a.o. scott for highlighting it as a critic's choice in the new york times. "friends of eddie coyle" is in that peculiar variant of film noir where "good and evil" have been entirely extracted from the narrative dynamic, leaving only the tactical calculations of characters swimming a turbulent world of existentialist gray. it only gradually becomes clear that some of these low lifes are thieves, some are gun runners, and some are cops, or how exactly the thieves and gun runners are connected, or that acquaintances are hit men, and hit men will, for a price, take down even those they invite to enjoy a hockey game. the narrative shifts back and forth between set piece bank robberies or gun purchases and one on one conversations in which the protagonists alternately manipulate, flatter, wheedle, bluff, coerce or inform on one another -- all filmed in a flat, clinical, procedural style strongly reminiscent jean-pierre melville's "army of shadows" (1969). the whole is knit together by the fate of eddie coyle, embodied by robert mitchum in an unsentimental but nuanced performance, who attempts to balance the demands of treasury cops (who might help him in a forthcoming sentencing for smuggling liquor) and the needs of armed criminals (who provide eddie's livelihood). the film is a grim and tragic examination of human beings who must negotiate trust and threat as part of their daily survival, and where the winners are those who can do the most reliable service for "the man" (or for "uncle"); the weak are those who only have the weak to rely on.
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Genre	Crime, Thriller
Format	Blu-ray
Contributor	Alex Rocco, Peter Boyle, Peter Yates, Robert Mitchum
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 42 minutes

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"With friends like you.........

Another classic from Peter Yates.

A gritty, bleak, slow-paced gangster film that only the 70s could have produced

Mitchum great as always, in a downbeat gem of a movie...

Mitchum on Top Form In a Superior Seventies Crime Thriller

One of the best films starring Robert Mitchum in his late period

With friends like these, who needs enemies.

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