The Friends of Eddie Coyle

As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums.

"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times

"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is wonderful. Eddie Coyle is made for him..." - Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com