ComedyCrime

Tough Guys

- 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.

Release Date : 1986-10-03

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Touchstone PicturesSilver Screen Partners IIBryna Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Harry Doyle

Original Name : Burt Lancaster

Gender : Male

Character Name : Archie Long

Original Name : Kirk Douglas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deke Yablonski

Original Name : Charles Durning

Gender : Male

Character Name : Belle

Original Name : Alexis Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Richie Evans

Original Name : Dana Carvey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Leon B. Little

Original Name : Eli Wallach

Gender : Male

Character Name : Philly

Original Name : Billy Barty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Skye

Original Name : Darlanne Fluegel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gladys Ripps

Original Name : Darlene Conley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jimmy Ellis

Original Name : Nathan Davis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sandy

Original Name : Hilary Shepard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Howard

Original Name : Jake Steinfeld

Gender : Male

Character Name : First Old Man Eating

Original Name : Arthur Tovey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Red Hot Chili Peppers Member

Original Name : Anthony Kiedis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Red Hot Chili Peppers Member

Original Name : Flea

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel Clerk

Original Name : Ernie Sabella

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gang Member

Original Name : Joe Seely

Gender : Male

Character Name : Federale Captain

Original Name : Rick Garcia

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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