The Friends of Eddie Coyle Special Edition Criterion Collection Blu-ray

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In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. 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—a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.

Special Features

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Peter Yates, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring Yates
• Stills gallery
• An essay by critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of actor Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone
• New cover by Michael Boland

Specifications

• Number of Discs:
  1
• Region:
  A
• Runtime:
  102
• Aspect Ratio:
  1.85:1
• Audio:
  Original Monaural