Episode 494: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We continue Noirvember 2020 with a look at Peter Yates’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, the film stars Robert Mitchum as the titular Coyle, an over-the-hill small time crook who’s trying to get by in the milieu of Boston’s underground. The film is rich with incredible character actors like Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, and more.

Andrew J. Rausch and Eric J. Peterson join Mike to discuss the film as well as crime writing and the Boston beat.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.3	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:23.6	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. This is Eddie Coil.
0:48.1	I got five smits, two loggers, a three-five-seven on mag.
0:53.6	Get home to a bank with that thing all by yourself.
0:56.0	And these are his friends.
0:59.0	You got to need any more guns?
1:12.4	I could use anything you can get.
1:14.6	In the world of Eddie Coyle and his friends, the real world of crime.
1:19.6	Cops cannot operate without information, and criminals cannot survive without favors.
1:26.6	Here's 20.
1:29.3	Who's calling up?
1:31.7	Remember Eddie fingers?
1:33.3	I want ten guns. I want it tomorrow night. I'll be right there with the money.
1:36.8	Same place where we were before. I'll be there with the money. You'll be there with those
1:40.9	damn guns. Because if you ain't, I'll be looking for you, and I'll find you, too.
1:46.0	Halloway, I hear you're maybe mixed up in something that's going on.
1:54.4	What did you do?
1:55.5	You hit me a lot.
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