Gangster Movies: (ca. 1973) Low level serial criminal Eddie Coyle is awaiting sentencing for his latest conviction, expecting to get at least five years hard time. This conundrum doesn’t stop Eddie from continuing his criminal activity, namely acquiring guns for an associate planning to go on a bank robbing spree. Eddie’s real dilemma is whether or not he’s emotionally able to endure another long prison sentence. This forces Eddie to contemplate co-operating with Detective Dave Foley in exchange to a lesser sentence.

Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle: One of the first things I learned is never to ask a man why he’s in a hurry. All you got to know is I told the man that he could depend on me because you told me I could depend on you. Now one of us is gonna have a big fat problem. Another thing I learned. If anybody’s gonna have a problem, you’re gonna be the one.

Jackie Brown: You finished?

Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle: No, I am not finished. Look, I’m gettin’ old, you hear? I spent most of my life hanging around crummy joints with a buncha punks drinkin’ the beer, eatin’ the hash and the hot dogs and watchin’ the other people go off to Florida while I’m sweatin’ out how I’m gonna pay the plumber. I done time and I stood up but I can’t take no more chances. Next time, it’s gonna be me goin’ to Florida.

At the hockey game, Eddie offers to go get beer. He gets up, and has his jacket on. When he arrives back with the beer, he is not wearing his jacket, but it is folded over the railing in front of his seat.

When Eddie talks with Dillon in the bar just after the bank robbers are caught, a mike is visible in the upper part of the screen.

When the young man who sells the guns to Eddie is sitting in his Road Runner with the man who will steal the machine guns from the Armory, the military man asks if the car has a “Hemi”. The young man says yes. “Hemi” refers only to the 426 cubic inch engine. The Road Runner in the movie clearly has a “383″ badge on the hood scoop. This engine is not a “Hemi”.

During a conversation in their living room, Eddie’s wife Sheila (Helena Carroll) is ironing one of his shirts. Before going upstairs, she sets the iron down face-first, but it doesn’t scorch the ironing board cover the way a heated iron certainly would.