The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Yates
Screenplay by	Paul Monash
Based on	The Friends of Eddie Coyle; 1972 novel; by George V. Higgins
Produced by	Paul Monash
Starring	Robert Mitchum; Peter Boyle; Richard Jordan; Steven Keats
Cinematography	Victor J. Kemper
Edited by	Patricia Lewis Jaffe
Music by	Dave Grusin
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 26, 1973;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American neo-noir^[1] crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle and directed by Peter Yates. The screenplay by Paul Monash was adapted from the 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins.

The film tells the story of Eddie Coyle (Mitchum), a small-time career hoodlum in the Irish Mob in Boston, Massachusetts. The title is purely ironic: Eddie has no friends.

While critical reception was positive, with particular praise for Mitchum's performance, the movie was not popular with filmgoers and failed to rank in the top 30 either in 1973 (when it was released mid-year) or 1974, and failed to recoup its budget in combined box office.

^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5

[1] Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5

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