The Friends of Eddie Coyle News

Ask a film fan what the most exciting films they discovered in 2009 were, and the chances are that their list will include as many old films revived on DVD as new cinema releases.

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.