Sight and Sound’s DVDs of the Year
Jan 2, 2010End-of-year list-making has been merrily under way in the movie world for the past few weeks, and now Sight and Sound magazine has jumped into the mix with its lineup of the best DVDs of 2009 . . .
Synopsis
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
Cast
| Eddie Coyle | Robert Mitchum |
| Dillon | Peter Boyle |
| Dave Foley | Richard Jordan |
| Scalise | Alex Rocco |
| Jackie Brown | Steven Keats |
| Artie Van | Joe Santos |
| Waters | Mitchell Ryan |
| Mr. Partridge | Peter MacLean |
| Andrea | Margaret Ladd |
| Manager, second bank | Kevin O'Morrisson |
Credits
| Director | Peter Yates |
| Producer | Paul Monash |
| Screenplay | Paul Monash |
| Based on the novel by | George V. Higgins |
| Music | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
| Production Design | Gene Callahan |
| Editing | Patricia Lewis Jaffe |
| Associate producer | Charles Maguire |
| Assistant director | Peter Scoppa |
| 2nd assistant director | Sal Scoppa |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Peter Yates
- Audio commentary featuring Yates
- Stills gallery
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone
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