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Tough Guys

6.0PG

MovieComedy, Crime19861h 44m

They're Out To Teach A New World Some Old Tricks.

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

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Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

Directed by
Jeff Kanew
Written by
James Orr, Jim Cruickshank
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Released
October 3, 1986
Runtime
1h 44m
Status
Released
Language
English
Countries
United States of America
Studios
Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II, Bryna Productions
Budget
$10,000,000
Box office
$21,458,229
  • Burt LancasterHarry Doyle
  • Kirk DouglasArchie Long
  • Charles DurningDeke Yablonski
  • Alexis SmithBelle
  • Dana CarveyRichie Evans
  • Eli WallachLeon B. Little
  • Billy BartyPhilly
  • Darlanne FluegelSkye
  • Darlene ConleyGladys Ripps
  • Nathan DavisJimmy Ellis
  • Hilary ShepardSandy
  • Jake SteinfeldHoward
  • Arthur ToveyFirst Old Man Eating
  • Anthony KiedisRed Hot Chili Peppers Member
  • FleaRed Hot Chili Peppers Member
  • Ernie SabellaHotel Clerk
  • Joe SeelyGang Member
  • RRick GarciaFederale Captain
  • BBob MaxwellSyms
  • Graham JarvisRichie's Boss

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  • John Chard★ 6August 30, 2019
    I'm Peter Pan. I've come to take you to Never-Never Land, okay? But you won't be comin' back! Tough Guys is directed by Jeff Kanew and written by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank. It stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Alexis Smith and Monty Ash. Music is by James Newton Howard and cinematography is by King Baggot. Two elderly gangsters are released fro…Read more

    I'm Peter Pan. I've come to take you to Never-Never Land, okay? But you won't be comin' back! Tough Guys is directed by Jeff Kanew and written by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank. It stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Alexis Smith and Monty Ash. Music is by James Newton Howard and cinematography is by King Baggot. Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men in a world that has changed considerably - but they still aren't going to take no crap from anyone! "Couldn't take it anymore. People treating me like dirt ever since I got out of jail. Sweeping out toilets, scraping crud off dishes, my girlfriend tryin' to kill me with sex - and I'm dressing like Bozo the Clown, just to fit in! I don't want to fit in anymore" You have to know the actors on show to fully get the glint they have in their eyes, Douglas, Lancaster and Wallach are having a grand time of things. As they exude machismo and world weary knowing in old bodies, turning quips and exasperation into a filmic art form, there's much fun mined out of this particular fish out of water piece. It's all very nostalgic and fanciful of course, and some of the more weightier themes such as treatment of senior citizens struggles to make a bigger mark, but it is charming. How can you not like the good old boys turning the tables on would be muggers and robbers? Rejoice as myopic hitman Wallach tries to enact a "hit" he was hired to do 30 years earlier! Maybe better use could have been made of the talent on show? Maybe? But this is no disaster and fans of the stars can get much from watching these good old boys go about entertaining for our pleasure. 6/10

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