{"id":33284,"date":"2023-07-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33284"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:48:56","slug":"the-friends-of-eddie-coyle-1973-starring-robert-mitchum-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33284","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Friends of Eddie Coyle&#8221; (1973) starring Robert Mitchum \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071523zview_friendsofec.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle <\/i><\/b>(1973)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Peter Yates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Paul Monash <\/strong>based on <strong>The Friends of Eddie Coyle <\/strong>by <strong>George V. Higgins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Robert Mitchum<\/strong>,<strong> Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan, Carolyn Pickman, James Tolkan<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Kehoe<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>It&#8217;s a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it&#8217;s the only world they know. And they&#8217;re the only friends Eddie has.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eddie Coyle (Mitchum) is a low-level criminal.\u00a0 He was convicted of a truck hijacking and is waiting sentencing.\u00a0 In an effort to get his conviction cleared, Coyle is secretly working as an informant for an ATF agent.\u00a0 At the same time Coyle is dealing guns to a crew of robbers who have knocked off a couple of banks and look to take down more soon.\u00a0 As the cops close in on the bank robbers, the time draws near for Coyle&#8217;s sentencing.\u00a0 He&#8217;s going to have to make some moves to get out clean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is such a great 1970s cast for a crime film.\u00a0 Great source material as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><b><i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle <\/i><\/b>(1973) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071523zview_friendsofec2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Director: Peter Yates Screenplay: Paul Monash based on The Friends of Eddie Coyle by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34182,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284\/revisions\/34182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}