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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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    …an aging petty hood in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Raymond Chandler’s 1940s detective Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely (1975). More important, his shadowy star image paved the way for the gritty antiheroes that became popular in the films of the 1950s and ’60s.

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