Tough Guys

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Tough Guys
Image:Tough guys.jpg 1986 movie poster
Directed by	Jeff Kanew
Produced by	Joe Wizan
Written by	James Cruikshank James Orr
Starring	Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Charles Durning Dana Carvey Eli Wallach
Music by	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	King Baggot
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	October 3, 1986
Running time	104 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Tough Guys is a 1986 comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach and Dana Carvey. The movie was directed by Jeff Kanew, who also directed Revenge of the Nerds. Lancaster and Douglas made several films together over the decades, including I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), and Seven Days in May (1964), which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster in these films but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, their roles were more or less the same size. Tough Guys was their final collaboration.

[edit] Plot

Harry (Lancaster) and Archie (Douglas) are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. How could they get into trouble at their age? Let's count the ways; A parole officer (Carvey) who is a famous criminal groupie, Dead end where people don't know they are dealing with dangerous, though older, criminals, a hit man who can barely see, but who still has an outstanding contract on them. Plus, does anyone still rob trains? At the end, famed locomotive Southern Pacific 4449 crashes.

[edit] Trivia

Kenny Rogers sings the songs opening theme, "They don't make them like they used too"
Red Hot Chili Peppers play themselves in the movie.
The train Southern Pacific 4449 is the same one to pull the American Freedom Train exhibit during the Bicentennial, now based in Portland, Oregon.
Adolph Caesar, who was nominated for best actor in a supporting role from both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes for his role as Sergeant Waters in A Soldier's Story, was signed on to play "Leon Little" in the film, but died during filming from a heart attack and Eli Wallach took over his role.