A DVD release to anticipate

I have just learned that one of my all-time favorite movies, Peter Yates' "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," starring Robert Mitchum, will finally be released on DVD May 19. In his 1973 review, then New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called this film "a good, tough, unsentimenal movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." It features one or Robert Mitchum's finest performances as well as another good one from Peter Boyle.