What is Bullitt / The Friends of Eddie Coyle about?

Double Feature: BULLITT, 1968, Warner Bros., 113 min. Dir. Peter Yates. In this pared-to-the-bone thriller, über-cool San Francisco police detective Steve McQueen goes up against mob hit men, as well as ambitious bureaucrat Robert Vaughn, as he fights to safeguard a witness. With Jacqueline Bisset. THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, 1973, Paramount, 102 min. Director Peter Yates (BULLITT) adapts with true grit George V. Higgins’ brilliant slice-of-Boston-low-life crime novel. Robert Mitchum is at his finest as streetwise Eddie Coyle, a blue-collar fence squeezed between the feds and his hoodlum cohorts, all while trying to support his family.

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What is Bullitt / The Friends of Eddie Coyle about?: Double Feature: BULLITT, 1968, Warner Bros., 113 min. Dir. Peter Yates. In this pared-to-the-bone thriller, über-cool San Francisco police detective Steve McQueen goes up against mob hit men, as well as ambitious bureaucrat Robert Vaughn, as he fights to safeguard a witness. With Jacqueline Bisset.

THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, 1973, Paramount, 102 min. Director Peter Yates (BULLITT) adapts with true grit George V. Higgins’ brilliant slice-of-Boston-low-life crime novel. Robert Mitchum is at his finest as streetwise Eddie Coyle, a blue-collar fence squeezed between the feds and his hoodlum cohorts, all while trying to support his family.