SEASON 2, EPISODE 31, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE - The Slow-Burning Boston Crime Saga!

Screen legend Robert Mitchum returns to the Rad Revival House in his classic grumbling, high-intensity fashion with his 1973 Boston-based gangster drama THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE!

Based on the novel by attorney-turned crime author George V. Higgins, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE tells the tale of Eddie “Fingers” Coyle, an aging low-level gun-dealer doing whatever it takes to stay out of prison. Even if it means snitching out fellow criminal associates to the law. That’s what Eddie is doing, and that’s what he intends to do, and Boston’s meanest organized crime figures ain’t gonna like that he’s selling them out to G-Men!

Joining our discussion is longtime Massachusetts native and frequent RRH Special Guest Lecturer Frank Mandosa (host of the great film review podcast Silver Screeners). Both Frank and RRH host Professor Cesare Augusto put their heads together as they analyze the almost agonizingly-slow pace of EDDIE COYLE, as well as its fabulous performances by star Mitchum (as the titular Eddie), Richard Jourdan, Peter Boyle, Steven Keats, and other famous 1970s character actors. 

Enthusiasts of thought-provoking, emotion-inducing gangster pictures should sit and absorb the quiet power of THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE. Because there’s more to 1970s crime pictures than just glamorized mobster epics and fancy-pants expensive productions!