name | The Friends of Eddie Coyle |
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director | Peter Yates |
producer | Paul Monash |
writer | Paul MonashGeorge V. Higgins (novel) |
starring | Robert MitchumPeter Boyle |
music | Dave Grusin |
cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
editing | Patricia Lewis Jaffe |
distributor | Paramount Pictures |
released | |
runtime | 103 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
budget | }} |
A gang led by Jimmy Scalise and Artie Van has been pulling a series of robberies in broad daylight at local banks, Coyle having supplied them with guns. Another gun runner, Jackie Brown, is in popular demand. Coyle wants to buy more pistols from him while a younger couple is shopping for machine guns.
Jackie goes to great lengths to get Coyle what he needs. Coyle delivers the guns to Scalise, but then he offers to set up Jackie for the cop Foley to avoid jail. In a train station's parking lot, waiting to sell his machine guns, Jackie is apprehended by Foley's men.
Coyle feels he has fulfilled his end of the deal. Foley, though, claims it still is not enough. He wants more or else it is prison for Coyle.
In desperation, Coyle agrees to inform on his friends Scalise and Van as they prepare to pull off their next bank job, but it turns out Foley already has inside information and has caught them in the act.
The mob thinks that Coyle was the snitch. They assign his friend, Dillon, to kill him. Before carrying out his orders, Dillon treats his friend to a night on the town, taking him to dinner and a Boston Bruins hockey game. He gets Coyle drunk and then shoots him inside a moving car.
In the final scene, Foley meets with his snitch, who is Dillon.
The fictional murderer is an ex-con named Dillon, who set up the failed truck hijacking for which Coyle was to be sent back to prison. Dillon owned a bar and was a freelance contract killer. The fictional Dillon was also an informant, shown both protecting and promoting his own interests by funneling information about his underworld competition to the police. Columnist and reporter Howie Carr stated, "In other words, Dillon appeared to be a prototype of the gangster that James J. Bulger would become," although the novelist whose book the movie is based on, just before his death, denied that he had based Dillon on Bulger.
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