The Friends of Eddie Coyle

A 1973 Robert Mitchum picture directed by Peter Yates (I have always found him intriguing because he directed "Bullitt" and "Breaking Away" - two awesome, but very different films). Mitchum is a low-level hood about to go to prison, leaving his family on welfare. He turns informant to try to reduce his sentence. Eventually he's murdered when bank robbers get busted and assume he sold them out. Great performances throughout. Especially Mitchum and Robert Jordan, his contact in the treasury department. There's a bank heist that plays out in elaborate detail and is very well done. Also just lots of good scenes of crooks doing business. Not the most exciting film, but very compelling.