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Friend of Eddie Coyle. With Robert Mitchum. This may have been the best movie of the summer though you would never know it from the reception it got. It bombed almost everywhere except in Boston, and where it was said that the movie owed its success to its realistic handling of the local environment. The movie did much more; it's perhaps the only gangster story with social roots intact. The story is about the low-level gangster's underworld of Boston--of petty cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this...
...former Assistant U.S. Attorney who worked mainly on organized crime, the film is notable for the same clear, crisp dialogue found in the book--it led Norman Mailer to write, "What I can't get over is that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz." Robert Mitchum plays aging small-time gangster Eddie "Fingers" Coyle...
...classic Western. It has simple values, recognizable goods and evils, as well as the heroically American notion of self-reliance and the personal code of justice. You have John Wayne's moral obligation to the McDonald family after he accidentally kills a son: his resurrection of alcoholic sheriff Robert Mitchum as well as his instinctive refusal to work for the land barons, which leads to a moral decision to work against them. What's fascinating is Hawks's dissociation from his contemporary environment. El Dorado, simple to the point of mindlessness, was made in 1967, after Blow Up, a film...
...Friends of Eddie Coyle. With Robert Mitchum. This is the best movie of the season. It's a story of the low level gangster's underworld of Boston -- of petty crooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game. It's an honest movie, true throughout to the crooked tale it tells. Paramount. 9:30-9:30 every 2 hours. --E.A.F...
...Mitchum's performance is excellent. Although he is built too powerfully for the role of hapless Eddie (can the man help it if he's got shoulders which must be the envy of any professional football player?), he plays the part with an admirable neglect of movie star ego--implying that his talents have been neglected over the years. Unknowns Richard Jordan as Foley, the undercover policeman, and Steven Keats as Jackie Brown, the wise-guy kid, are also very good...