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Tough Guys is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jeff Kanew released in USA on 3 october 1986 with Burt Lancaster
Tough Guys (1986)
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Add to a movie listTough Guys is a 1986 action comedy film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Charles Durning, Dana Carvey and Darlanne Fluegel. It was directed by Jeff Kanew. This was the first film to be released under the banner of Touchstone Pictures rather than Touchstone Films.
Lancaster and Douglas had already made several films together, including I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), and Seven Days in May (1964), becoming something of a team in the public's eye. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, their roles were more or less of equal importance. Tough Guys was their final collaboration.
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Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who've served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security.Actors
Burt Lancaster
(Harry Doyle)
Kirk Douglas
(Archie Long)
Charles Durning
(Deke Yablonski)
Eli Wallach
(Leon B. Little)
Darlanne Fluegel
(Skye)
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