| A descendant of renowned New York jurist Learned Hand, Richard Jordan followed his forebear to Harvard University and made his Broadway debut in 1961. (where Dillon tends bar - various other businesses since), 747 Providence Highway, Dedham, Massachusetts, USA I was a BU student, out on a Saturday night (probably) with two friends from high school, a girl who went to BU w. me and a friend in from Brandeis. I bet there were still many of these neighborhood joints still around in 1973- does this look familiar to anyone? In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Hurts like a bastard." There are plenty of other Boston views in the movie- Government Center and City Hall Plaza which were only 3-4 years old at that point, a hockey game with Bobby Orr at the Gaaaaahden and other places that may hold special meaning for you if youre from the area. Sold by: Ill also be transferring some of the other pertinent info from that thread over to here, so all the good stuff is in one place. cynical Dave Foley pretends to care about Eddie's problems while encouraging him to turn snitch. Robert Mitchum See more The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Criterion Collecti - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in a new window or tab, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (The Criterion Collection), - for PayPal Credit, opens in a new window or tab, Report this item - opens in new window or tab, Already delivered a few days ago. It failed to place in the top 30 in film revenue in 1973[4] (when it was released mid-year)[5] or 1974,[6] and failed to recoup its estimated $3 million budget in combined box office returns. Psyched to grab Pauls book. I was never a fan of Robert Mitchum until I saw this movie. www.movie-locations.com . The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Just confirm how you got your ticket. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. I have a trip planned-out (that I havent taken yet) for Rocky, The Sixth Sense, and The Village filming locations. Hes kind of a utility infielder, ready to trade in some hot guns, drive a hijacked truck, or generally make himself useful. Both places are on Retro Roadmap, sadly we just found out 2 weeks ago that Danas is closed. Eddie Coyle has no friends. The success of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971) launched a wave of crime pictures filmed in a gritty documentary style: Badge 373, The Laughing Policeman, The Seven-Ups, Report to the Commissioner.The most critically acclaimed of the bunch is The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a thoroughly downbeat and deglamorized view of the criminal life. the table by serving as a middleman between gunrunner Jackie Brown (Steven Keats) and bank robber Jimmy Scalise The characters and dialog are both believable, like taking a look into the lives of small time criminals. There's nothing whatsoever attractive about the denizens of Boston's Obituary for Paul Monash, Variety, January 2003 Higgins' exposure to real life recidivists allowed him to capture with persuasive fidelity tight lipped regional criminalspeak and reveal the humanity of his characters through their flawed syntax and pre-David Mamet reliance on repetition. (Eddie Coyle's house), 360 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Dillon invites Coyle out to a Boston Bruins game at the Boston Garden along with a hood whom Dillon claims is his "wife's nephew". The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Filming & Production Showing all 21 items Jump to: Filming Locations (20) Filming Dates (1) Filming Locations Edit Railway station - Route 27, Sharon, Massachusetts, USA 10 of 10 found this interesting Kentucky Tavern - Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA a gritty documentary style: Badge 373, The Laughing Policeman, The Seven-Ups, Report to the Commissioner. Jun 26, 1973 Eddie got the nickname Fingers some years ago after a gun deal. Excellent cast of character actors, most of whom were just starting out at the time. Screenplay: Paul Monash; George V. Higgins (novel) Joyce Linehan of Ashmont Records was kind enough to share the link over on Facebook and Paul Sherman chimed in and mentioned his site/ book as well, which I will be perusing momentarily. Peter Yates chose The Friends of Eddie Coyle to mark Keats' film debut because of the actor's resemblance to rock star Mick Jagger. The rumpled perfection of Mitchum's interpretation of Eddie Coyle gave the film a documentary-like rawness magnified by Yates' use of existing locations. Everybody's strategy is to survive, but their criminal efforts are all undone by betrayals. Their friends slammed Eddies fingers in a drawer. He doesnt want to leave his wife and kids and see them go on welfare. The Friends of Eddie Coyle filming locations span the Boston area. Stay up-to-date on all the latest Rotten Tomatoes news! Saw it as a new release and found a bootleg dvd of it many years ago. The rich characterizations are what make Eddie Coyle a memorable crime film experience. What is claimed instead is that cast member Alex Rocco, who grew up in Somerville, introduced Mitchum to Howie Winter of the Winter Hill Gang. R. Watchlist. Sold by: A good study of the characters and what they gain and lose, and how they lie and cheat each other in order to survive in the criminal underworld. With all of the leading actors gone (even the relatively youthful Richard Jordan and Steven Keats) Criterion cutaway had to be used to get a glass with a nice head of foam. parking lot of a commuter train station. [7] Both reviewers singled out Mitchum's lead performance as a key ingredient of the film's success. ), but its featured in a great series of photos of the Zone, which you can read about and see here http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/77601-noir-film/. Alex Rocco (The Godfather) brings personal experience from the Boston streets to his role as Peter Yates biography, World Film Directors, Volume 2 1945-1985, edited by John Wakeham View cart for details. He understood. The scene that got me all in a tiz however was the one shot at the Dedham Plaza shopping center on Route 1. The screenplay by Paul Monash was adapted from the 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins . Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter snapping a shingle. It really hangs with one. And The Friends of Eddie Coyle works so well because Eddie is played by Robert Mitchum, and Mitchum has perhaps never been better. Suspected of having informed on the gang, Eddie Coyle is taken for one last evening out, before hes unceremoniously left in a car outside Boston Bowl, 820 William T Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester. Once they leave, Foley and his team move in to make the arrest. Dillon and Foley meet outside Boston City Hall the next day, where Foley thanks Dillon for giving him Scalise and his crew. For more information about The Friends of Eddie Coyle, visit The Coming Soon. "Everybody ought to listen to his mother." I also grew up in an inner-city neighborhood in Boston full of guys like this and trust me, these are extremely accurate portrayals of your typical Boston gangster of the 1970's, 1980's in places like South Boston, Charlestown and Dorchesterif you want a fictionalized, hyped up Hollywood version then go buy Departed instead. Thanks for sharing your story Dan. In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie Fingers Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higginss acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. The interesting thing you note, about making addresses appear closer, is in the movie School Ties. Stay tuned for part 2- What Diner Is That in the Movie? Foley shows him the arrest in the newspaper and departs, leaving Coyle anguished. We have all known a hundred Eddie Coyle's, But only Higgins could put the story on paper. Sobre seventies at its best. | hoods. Sign Up now to stay up to date with all of the latest news from TCM. new Heres an interior shot of the same restaurant, with the cafeteria line in the back. Based closely on the 1970 novel of the same name by George V. Higgins, a former deputy assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the film follows Coyle through a series of wheedling negotiations in dumpy diners and pubs, and finally to the Cathedral of Beantown, the Boston Gardens, to get a glimpse of "Numbah fouah, Bobby Read critic reviews. Born in Aldershot, Hampshire in July 1929, trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a racing enthusiast before his industry apprenticeship as an editor of documentaries, Yates had by the early 1970s earned a reputation as a solid helmer of action films. If the movie has a flaw, its that we dont really care that much about the bank robberies that are counterpointed with Eddies situation. In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie "Fingers" Coyle in Peter Yates's The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Aging Boston gunrunner Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is looking at several years of jail time for a hold-up if he doesn't funnel information to Dave Foley (Richard Jordan), an ATF agent. By using this site, you agree to our updated, Eddie (Robert Mitchum) complains about his sentence to ex-con barkeep Dillon (Peter Doyle), who then meets federal agent Foley (Richard Jordan) outside the Government Center train station in Boston, in, First appearance as the title character by Robert Mitchum, meeting gun seller "Jackie Brown" (Steven Keats) in a metro-Boston cafe, exchanging dialogue from George V. Higgins' original novel, in, Understated and oddly fascinating opening sequence, featuring Alex Rocco casing a bank, from the Boston-based crime drama, Informant Eddie (Robert Mitchum) in a secret meeting featuring oblique dialogue with shady federal agent Foley (Richard Jordan), from Peter Yates', Mesmerizing robbery scene featuring the bank manager (Peter MacLean), his family held hostage, executing instructions from masked thieves (Alex Rocco, Joe Santos), from director Peter Yates'. Desperate to avoid prison, Eddie approaches Treasury agent Dave Foley (Richard Jordan) with the idea of a (Eddie left in a car outside this bowling alley - still in business in 2021), Boston Garden - 150 Causeway Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Foley meets Dillon), 236 Fayette Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA Production Description. Just look at all those cool old cars! In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Eddie Fingers finally set free after being beaten around the bush (to save him from serving several years of prison life) by a cunning ATF agent. They are successful and make a clean getaway. In preparation for the third robbery, the crew move in to kidnap the bank's manager but are ambushed by Foley and other ATF agents and placed under arrest. underworld, caught in a vice-grip between conniving lawmen and a hypocritical criminal code. That sign was not there when I was growing up, but The Plaza still had plenty of vintage charm. They used Danas in Lowell, MA for the soda fountain scene and exteriors, and supposedly right down the street from there (in the movie) was the Roxy theatre. L&W? The show was During this time, Higgins wrote a succession of crime novels set in and around Boston, which Life had dubbed "the murder capital of America." Im right there with you LJC both on the Old Kentucky and Pauls book- which I just ordered. And Boston Film Historian Paul Sherman was kind enough to link to a writeup of his own on the movie, http://www.bigscreenboston.com/2008/05/book-excerpt-the-friends-of-eddie-coyle.html from his book Big Screen Boston you can buy it from his site, like I just did! By Sven Mikulec. There's a fine collection of 'tough guy' performances from the cast, which includes the likes of Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco and Steve Keats, who has the film's most interesting character and best performance. Brown buys stolen Army machine guns from unreliable soldiers and resells them to dangerous fugitive radicals. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, and Alex Rocco. A graduate of the New York School of Performing Arts and a Vietnam veteran, Keats attended Montclair State College, where his acting caught the attention of drama scouts from Yale University. Terms and Policies Developed by nickpc. Director Peter Yates's 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle stands as a particularly bleak and restrained example of this cycle, adapted by Paul Monash from George V. Higgins's 1970 novel of the same name. Cleve! Im going to break this post into 2 pieces as I know my diner pals will be interested particularly in part 2. The Friends of Eddie Coyle examines the dilemma of a man without options. This is a character-driven script that requires one to pay attention to all the little power plays going on in the background. There I am talking like a Bostonian, giving directions based on places that arent there anymore! The title is purely ironic: Eddie has no friends. Coyle cooperates with ATF agent Dave Foley in order to get his sentencing cleared, but is unaware that Dillon is an informant for Foley; Dillon meets with Foley in person every week to receive $20 from him. *I misidentified the scene labeled SOMERVILLE *********************************************************************************************If you're interested in the films and books mentioned in this video I've listed where you can find them in the links below.The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Blu-Ray: https://amzn.to/3OlG9srThe Friends of Eddie Coyle DVD: https://amzn.to/3Mdqfi6The Friends of Eddie Coyle By George V. Higgins (Paperback): https://amzn.to/3814HpS*********************************************************************************************subscribe to the free cinema cities newsletter https://screenspectator.substack.com?sd=pfLike the music? Paul Monash, Release Date (Theaters): Its strange that a movies interest should fall off during its action scenes. He gives us a man, invites our sympathy for him, and then watches almost sadly as his time runs out. Someone remarks of Eddie, about halfway through The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that for a two-bit hood, he has fingers in a lot of pies. Filmed without sentiment against the backdrop of a quickly changing city, this underrated 70s neo noir features one of Robert Mitchum's best performances. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (692) 7.4 1 h 42 min 1973 X-Ray R Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. Mitchum refused to discuss characterization but responded positively to director input on the set. He can usually tell you where all those shopping centers and bars were. Boston crook Eddie Coyle (Robert Hello Dan There was only 1 Cafeteria Scene as far as I am aware. Towards the end of the robbery, one of the tellers triggers a silent alarm and is shot dead by one of the robbers, requiring a hasty exit by the crew. (Det. The film's finale is one of the bleakest since the heyday of Loser Noir. Eddie Coyle lives in Wollaston, south toward Quincy, at 236 Fayette Street, between North Central and Elmwood Avenues. Were there more than one cafeteria scene? Producer: Paul Monash Ebert wrote: "Eddie Coyle is made for him [Mitchum]: a weary middle-aged man, but tough and proud; a man who has been hurt too often in life not to respect pain; a man who will take chances to protect his own territory. We accidentally walked into the shot, and kind of freaked when we saw Robert Mitchum staring through a window. It remained a bar for many years, mostly of the fern bar variety, until sometime in the 80s I believe. Flights: Logan International Airport, 1 Harborside Drive Boston, MA 02128 (tel: 800.235.6426), Getting around: MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority), Visit: Boston Bowl, 820 William T Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester, MA 02122 (tel: 617.825.3800), Please send any corrections or additions to info@movie-locations.com. Robert Mitchum is absolutely perfect as an aged associate of nefarious characters who tries to stay out of jail while also avoiding getting killed. A great source of info on movies shot in Boston, btw, is the book Big Screen Boston by Paul Sherman. Brian, thanks for the links, and the great screen captures! Crime, Hes facing a two-year stretch in New Hampshire, and he wants out of it. Find my playlist with the music I've used here:https://share.epidemicsound.com/l84tue/?playlist=lnvbuebspkgzdtj2g5veg8o96estg9ksAnd, if you sign up to Epidemic Sound through the playlist link, you'll get 1 month for free!I hang out on Twitter so come on over and say hi! I only saw TFOEC recently and will watch again soon. Also looks like the Boston Bowl is the bowling alley. One location that appered a lot in the movie is this corner bar- I love the barstools like diner counterstools and the gigantic fan in the back corner. Because he has better sources of information, the Baby, I Don't Care by Lee Server Jordan succumbed to a brain tumor in 1994 and Mitchum from lung cancer in 1997, a month shy of his 80th birthday. | Oh, forgot to mention . The relentless realism and unglamorous nature of the characters in Eddie Coyle was in sharp contrast to some other gangster novels of the era, particularly Mario Puzo 's The Godfather , a more romanticized look at organized crime that . There is a certain code without which it would be simply impossible to go on doing business. Rolling Stone piece by Grover Lewis. Criterion Collection. Or if you cant wait, you can rent The Friends of Eddie Coyle from Netflix like I did! MHS Film Club: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - YouTube -- Film critic Ty Burr, discusses the Boston film "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" --1973's "The Friends of Eddie. I cant remember the name maybe initials, S&K? One minor correction tho the Weymouth bank is actually the site of the 2nd robbery, the first is just off Dedham Square, right across the street from a gas station and just down from the intersection where the Tahiti still stands! All material Copyright 2023 The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations The movie is drawn from a knowledgeable novel by George V. Higgins, himself a states attorney, and has been directed by one of the masters of this sort of thing, Peter Yates (Robbery, Bullitt). Like Paul said there were a bunch around then that no longer exist. Filming took place throughout the Boston area, including Government Center in Boston, and Dedham, Cambridge, Milton, Quincy, Sharon, Somerville, Malden, and Weymouth, Massachusetts. Dour, downbeat story of smalltime crooks and snitches, set and filmed in a dingy 70s Boston and its surrounding communities no gleaming State House dome or Beacon Hill townhouses here. Genre: 1973. two-faced cop willing to cheat anyone to embellish his personal arrest record. This weekend marks the finale in the series, Robert Mitchum: Cheap, Flash, and Brilliant, and the theater is going o, Along with Wholl Stop the Rain and Charley Varrick, I first saw The Friends of Eddie Coyle on late-night TV when I was ten or eleven. Robert Mitchum: A Biography by George Eells Not only did I work there during college but we used to walk down there too, when we were bored from playing on the piazza at Grammies or didnt want to rest on the divan (two words I only use when referring to her house, so old fashioned). His portrayal of ex-con Eddie Coyle was flawless. Ironically, Woodward (who passed away in November of this year) survived both of his replacements. Wasnt signage better back then or am i just an old bastard?! 10th Chicago Critics Film Fest Features Past Lives, Blackberry, Sanctuary, Theater Camp, and Many More, A Road Paved with Bloodshed: High Plains Drifter Turns 50, Cannes 2023 Line-up Includes Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, and Many More, Ebertfest Welcomes Molly Cornyn as its New Project Coordinator. It's one of his very best performances, aided by a . Cinemark In order to escape this fate, he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Jordan toiled extensively in New York theatre, appeared on such weekly series as The Defenders and Naked City, and made his film debut in 1971. Verified purchase: | bookmans_exchange. glad its out as a legit disc now. He reluctantly agrees to sell them in a discreet location at a specific time. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Filming & Production Showing all 21 items Jump to: Filming Locations (20) Filming Dates (1) Filming Locations Edit Railway station - Route 27, Sharon, Massachusetts, USA 10 of 10 found this interesting Kentucky Tavern - Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. Thank you so much for remembering PJ Pastry Shop in the movie and posting it in your blog. Though Im not quite sure, Im thinking this place mightve been near Park Street? Now thats the lasting impact of design, right there. The buyers he supplied got caught. The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American neo-noir[1] crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle and directed by Peter Yates. Those are our three reasons. ordinary passers-by; few crime stories seem as rooted in their setting. how cool was that Barbos sign! To order The Friends of Eddie Coyle, go to and the I know it wasnt there when I worked at the plaza, but am drawing a blank at what it became. My folks grew up in Dedham so I knew a lot of those places, Ive been there recently and while many things have changed Im glad to see the Community theatre still there. They swap out cars in the parking lot of a bowling alley and leave. Born in 1939, Higgins majored in English at Boston College and earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford University before early jobs in advertising and as a rewrite man for The Associated Press. bartender Dillon offers honest concern for Eddie's legal woes. I went to the bar many times. Too many, as it turns out. Today on the Classic Movie Reviews Podcast, we are taking on The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973). There, Foley and a group of agents watch the area from afar with sniper rifles. Eddie buys some guns from another gunrunner, Jackie Brown (Steven Keats), then gives him up to Foley, but the agent isn't satisfied. Yates. Born in Harlem in 1917, the son of Rhoda Melrose, a silent film actress who worked with both Vitagraph and Biograph studios, Monash had aspirations of becoming a novelist but first enjoyed great success in live television in the 1950s. This was around Boylston and Tremont Street near the Common. Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Jurassic Park Movies Ranked By Tomatometer, RT25: Celebrating 25 Years of Rotten Tomatoes, Betty Gilpin & Co. on Deciphering Mrs. Davis, Weekend Box Office Results: Super Mario Sets Record in Its Second Weekend, The Friends of Eddie Coyle sees Robert Mitchum in transformative late-career mode in a gritty and credible character study. Coyle tells him that he knows a gunrunner, Jackie, that he could potentially have Foley arrest in order to ease the sentencing; Foley sits on this idea. I can't say enough great things about this movie, but if you're a young person who grew up on the flashy, eye candy world of the latest Hollywood films, then you might find it drab and slow moving. Thanks Again, Rich. Film Editing: Patricia Lewis Jaffe Drama. I told my mother about watching the movie and she said that Barbos had been there for years. Thanks for posting tons of good information, always good to flesh out the thread. Read full review. I can imagine it was a bit of a thrill to walk in on this! (Memorial Drive by the Charles River, overlooking Back Bay, Boston), 5 Bryant Street, Dedham, Massachusetts, USA (Hockey game), Dorms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Malden, Massachusetts, USA by Richard Harland Smith But this is Eddie Coyles picture, and Mitchums. Coyle is a stand-up guy but both sides take him for a patsy. You can check them out as well, along with some commentary on what stands there today. Mitchum) faces a two-year minimum jail sentence for transporting stolen goods; the Mob has offered him no legal "interesting" relationship with the Boston Teamsters and star Robert Mitchum's larger-than-life habits: hard Looking for the role of Eddie Coyle, an older gentleman with . I just took a quick look to see if I could see Grams white Ford Falcon, but she must not have been shopping that day. Coming Soon, Regal Refresh your browser window to try again. [2], During the making of the film, Mitchum was interested in meeting the local gangsters as part of his research. l know this is fuzzy, but check it out its Lechmere! the hotshot bank robber. Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". It included a director's commentary by Peter Yates, who died less than two years after the DVD came out. 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