The Friends of Eddie Coyle at HOME
Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor![](https://www.creativetourist.com/app/uploads/2018/07/736064651564787842198f6c7b6ee07f-623x438.jpg)
In one of the best performances of his career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’ acclaimed novel. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking.