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Robert Mitchum's grizzled and vulnerable performance as a down-on-his luck Quincy gunrunner makes The Friends of Eddie Coyle one movie that every Bostonian ought to see.

WATCH: "THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE" Martin Scorsese's 2006 Oscar-winner "The Departed" owes a notable debt to Peter Yates' great, Boston-set-and-shot 1973 crime noir "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Based on a novel by Boston reporter-turned-novelist George V. Higgins, the film tells the semi-tragic tale of Eddie "Fingers" Coyle and presages the whole ...

The gangster heist movie to which all other heist movies pay homage. This French flick also features a 32-minute burglary sequence without dialogue or music.

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Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" : A terrific, taut crime drama about informers and their pals.

This week's picks include a Van Morrison concert exclusive, a WWII drama and a Robert Mitchum classic.

In the pantheon of movie tough guys, it's tough to top Robert Mitchum. Whether playing a world-weary private eye in "Out of the Past," a vengeful ex-con in "Cape Fear" or a murderous preacher in "Night of the Hunter," Mitchum was the guy you didn't dare mess with.

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday, May 19. 2009. A big TV on DVD week as the seasons are coming to an end.

Cool it, slick. If Judge Clark Douglas says he can get it by Thursday, you'll have it Thursday.

Is that the city I live in? What happened to the Freedom Trail, the Red Sox, stuffy Brahmins, Henry James, the Kennedys, the Blue Laws or "Make Way For Ducklings?" It would be easy to blame Peter Yates adaptation of the George Higgins novel for this trend, but, as Paul Sherman notes in his indespensible guide " Big Screen Boston ," it has been ...

Now digitally remastered by Criterion, this is a movie worth seeing out for your Netflix queue, stat.

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Long before there was Jack Nicholson in "The Departed," there was Robert Mitchum in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Long before there was the Oscar-winning screenplay by Boston local Bill Monahan for "The Departed," there were the untouchable words of the late, great George V. Higgins, brought to the screen by Paul Monash in "Eddie Coyle." "The ...

"The Friends of Eddie Coyle," a fine crime novel by George V. Higgins, was published in 1972 and made into an outstanding movie a year later.

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Rated: R ; DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009; Genre: Drama ; With: Peter Boyle and Robert Mitchum By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column Long available only on cruddy bootleg discs, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the best crime films of the '70s - a decade that ...

My old friend and colleague Glenn Kenny , doing business over at his gratifyingly high-brow movie blog Some Came Running, was dicussing the new Criterion Collection DVD of the way interesting 1973 Robert Mitchum existential gangster flick The Friends of Eddie Coyle the other day, and the following lines just jumped out at me: Robert Mitchum's ...

Someone remarks of Eddie, about halfway through " The Friends of Eddie Coyle ," that for a two-bit hood, he has fingers in a lot of pies.