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Paramount Home Entertainment
Directed by: Peter Yates
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. 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.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Gallery, Booklet
- Audio commentary featuring Peter Yates
- Stills gallery
- Booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and a 1973 on-set profile of actor Robert Mitchum from Rolling Stone
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Release Credits
Producer: Curtis Tsui
Artwork: Michael Boland
Release Notes on Restoration
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and the bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit DataCine from a 35mm interpositive and a 35mm color reversal intermediate struck from the original negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were removed using MTI’s DRS and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Digital Vision’s Phoenix was used for small dirt.
Presented in its original monaural format, the soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from a 35mm magnetic dialogue, music, and effects track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.
Presented in its original monaural format, the soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from a 35mm magnetic dialogue, music, and effects track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.