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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Peter Yates, 1973, 101 minutes
Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Stephen Keats, Peter MacLean
Screenplay by Paul Monash; based on the novel by George V. Higgins
Music: Dave Grusin (more…)
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Martin Scorsese is best known for his gangster films: Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Aside from Gangs of New York, these films unsparingly demythologize organized crime.
Thus Scorsese’s first foray into the mafia genre, 1973’s Mean Streets, is something of a surprise, for its depiction of New York’s Italian mafia may be on a much smaller canvas than Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), but in some ways it is even more romanticized. (more…)