The Friends of Eddie Coyle

It’s a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it’s the only world they know. And they’re the only friends Eddie has.

Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?

Direction

Peter Yates

Screenplay

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George V. Higgins

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Paul Monash