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Robert Mitchum stars in the Peter Yates crime classic adapted from the George V. Higgins novel

‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ on Criterion Channel and Kanopy

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, SVOD, thriller 12/09/2019 Sean Axmaker

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), adapted from the terrific novel by George V. Higgins and produced in the wake of The French Connection, is probably the least heralded crime movie classic of the seventies. Robert Mitchum is Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle, a middleman working the fringes of the Boston underworld while awaiting sentencing, which prompts […]

Audie Murphy stars in Don Siegel's 'The Gun Runners,' adapted from the Hemingway novel

‘The Gun Runners’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime, Classic 09/05/2016 Sean Axmaker

Don Siegel’s low-budget 1958 adventure The Gun Runners is not exactly a remake of To Have and Have Not but it is the third screen adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. Audie Murphy takes the lead here as independent skipper Sam Martin, who rents his cabin cruiser to tourists looking to fish the waters of […]