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Spidey’s foes in the 70s.

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973)

"Is he dead?"

"If he's not now, he's never gonna be."

#The friends of eddie coyle #peter yates #1973 #crime film #American cinema #Films i done watched #robert mitchum #peter boyle #Richard jordan #Steven keats #Alex rocco #joe santos #Mitchell Ryan #Peter MacLean #Carolyn Pickman #Margaret Ladd #Helena Carroll #george v. higgins #Novel adaptation #Every so often in a fit of pique or boredom or ennui i pick up a film cheap that i know next to nothing about. It's a hit and miss affair #But i usually do ok. This was one such film. I knew it was a crime film starring mitchum and that was it. If I'd realised it was by Peter #Yates I'd have had a better idea of what i was getting into. Happily this was one of those very lucky gambles where the film turns out to #Be genuinely excellent. Shot in Yates familiar documentary style and thoroughly gritty and bleak. It isn't really a star piece for mitchum #At all. It's a true ensemble piece in which we follow his character only to break off and follow keats or jordan (both excellent as are #All the cast). Yates maintains a middle distance from everyone. Just lines up the players and lets them do their thing. It's got shades of #Of his earlier uk effort Robbery but if anything it's harder and absolutely without sentiment. A clear influence on the departed too #A hard grim stoic film which tells a simple and familiar story but in such a way as to make it horribly compelling #Special mention to the ever wonderful alex rocco who gets a small role with few lines and spends most of the film behind a mask #But still makes his character entirely real and three dimensional. In true Yates style we never see The Man who pulls the strings #But if anything the film is stronger for it. This isn't big movers and shakers. Its the smallfry and the losers

The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 1973

Peter MacLean, Alex Rocco, et al.

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