Brattle Theatre Presents: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE stars a magnificently hangdog Robert Mitchum as the title character, a bottom-of-the-food-chain Boston gangster struggling to make ends meet. When he is faced with the choice of informing or going to jail for yet another extended stretch, Eddie makes the obvious choice and turns songbird. But he desperately tries to avoid turning in the big bosses in the interest of saving his own neck. Also featuring a multitude of gritty 1970s Boston locations, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is a neo-noir classic and one of Mitchum’s finest hours.