Tough Guys 1986 Movie Torrent 11
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Tough Guys is a 1986 American action comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Charles Durning, Dana Carvey, and Darlanne Fluegel. It is the eighth film of Touchstone Pictures, and the final film to be released from Douglas's Bryna Productions.
This was the first film released under the Touchstone Pictures label after Walt Disney Studios changed the name of the label from Touchstone Films, following the release of Ruthless People (1986).
During the filming of the exterior shots of SP 4449, the train was stored nightly at the Eagle Mountain rail yards. The local school children from Eagle Mountain School took a field trip in early 1986 to see and tour the train on location along the Eagle Mountain Railroad south of Interstate 10.
When you were a kid, they were the embodiment of heroism and charm and strength. And then comes this movie where they play guys 67 and 72 years old. And who, for that matter, is that middle-age guy in the audience sitting in your seat? "Tough Guys" is the story of the last two train robbers in America, who stuck up a train in 1956 and were put away for 30 years.
Now they're back on the street again, two old ex-cons trying to go straight and preserve a certain level of self-respect. These guys are not just any old cons, however, and that's the basic flaw in this movie: They're both living legends, and they know it.
"Tough Guys" might have seemed like a good idea for a movie. It certainly reminds us of what giants Lancaster and Douglas were - and are. But precisely because they have paid so many dues and bring so many of our memories to all the roles they play, they deserve something better than this. The movie makes the same mistake as some of the characters in it: It treats these two guys like lovable old characters instead of listening to what they really have to say.
Tough Guys is a 1986 comedic crime film directed by Jeff Kanew (V.I. Warshawski) and marked the final pairing of legendary actors Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, who star in the film as Harry Doyle and Archie Long, two aged criminals who are released from prison after a 30 year sentence and decide to pull off one last heist.
Background: When Burt and Kirk made an appearance at the Oscars ceremony in 1985 to present an award, sitting at home were aspiring screenwriters James Orr and Jim Cruickshank. Impressed by their chemistry and star-wattage, they decided it was about time the two screen legends made another film together. And THEY were the guys who should make it happen..
This is an original, rolled, one-sheet movie poster from 1986 for Tough Guys starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, and Darlanne Fluegel. Jeff Kanew directed the crime comedy.
Kino Lorber has released a Blu-ray edition of "Tough Guys", the 1986 crime comedy that is best remembered for being the final screen team-up between old friends Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. The film had unusual origins. In the early 1980s, Lancaster and Douglas made a very funny joint appearance on an Oscars broadcast and joked about being beyond their years as matinee idols. Up-and-coming screenwriters James Orr and Jim Criuckshank were greatly amused and began to ponder the possibility of pairing both actors for the first time since 1963, when they co-starred in the Cold War classic "Seven Days in May". Both actors were enthused about the project and Disney gave the film the green light. The movie opens at a penitentiary where Harry Doyle (Lancaster), age 72 and his partner in crime Archie Long (Douglas), age 67, are preparing to enter the free world for the first time since they were convicted in 1956 of committing the last train robbery in American history. Upon being released, they are told by their sympathetic probation officer Richie Evans (Dana Carvey) that they are prohibited from seeing each other for a period of three years, an edict that the men promptly ignore. They find a new world has come about during their years of confinement and getting used to the new technologies and more liberal social attitudes takes quite a bit of adjusting. Both men are committed to staying on the "straight and narrow" but things quickly go awry. Archie lands some menial jobs but balks at the abuse he is forced to take by both employers and customers. Harry ends up being forced to live in a senior citizen home where the meek residents are routinely exploited and belittled by the cruel staff. Before long he gets a reputation as a trouble-maker for instigating the residents to stand up for their rights. Both men do have success in resurrecting their romantic lives. Harry reunites with Belle (Alexis Smith), a former flame who coincidentally also lives in the same senior citizen home. Archie gets picked up by Skye (Darlanne Fluegel), a sexy twenty-something who finds novelty in bedding a much older man who is in such superb physical condition. A running gag in the plot finds Harry and Archie being stalked by Leon B. Little (Eli Wallach), a once-feared hit man who is now virtually blind. Leon was hired thirty years ago by a gangster to carry out a contract on the men but he can't remember why. Nevertheless, he's determined to carry out the task. Archie and Harry also have run-ins with Deke Yablonski (Charles Durning), the obnoxious detective who had them jailed thirty years ago and now stalks them like Javert, warning everyone that he suspects they will resort to crime once again. Ultimately, he's right. Fed up with being disrespected, Harry and Archie decide to live life on their own terms- and this includes pulling off an audacious caper by robbing the old time train they had originally targeted in 1956.
"Tough Guys" exists solely for the purpose of reuniting two Hollywood legends. If not for the presence of Lancaster and Douglas it would probably have been made as a TV movie. While the screenwriters deserve praise for bringing this reunion to fruition it must be said that their script is never quite as funny as you might expect it to be. The situations tend to be predictable and some of the scenarios play out in an overlong fashion, such as when Archie ends up working in an ice cream parlor and has to contend with an obnoxious kid. While the entire enterprise is consistently amusing, we never get the belly laughs that the various scenarios seem to promise. There's plenty to like about the film, however. Just seeing the gracefully-aged Lancaster and Douglas, dressed to the nines in their suits and fedoras from the 1950s, is a true pleasure- especially when we realize that both men would suffer terribly debilitating health problems in the years to come. The film benefits from the light touch of director Jeff Kanew, who had previously worked with Douglas on "Eddie Macon's Run". Kanew doesn't go over-the-top in a quest for a yuck and allows the charisma of his two stars to shine brightly. The supporting cast is very good across the board but it's Eli Wallach who steals every scene he is in and provides the funniest moments of the movie. I should point out that the opening credits (remember when movies had them?) are terrific. We see the camera glide over the relics of Archie and Harry's past, frozen in time: custom-made suits, expensive liquor, newspaper clippings of their capers, fine cigars, etc. As the credits unfurl, the sequence is set to a marvelous song, "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To", written by Henry Mancini and Carol Bayer Sager and nicely crooned by Kenny Rogers. It evokes a real sense of past glories even before we're introduced to the characters. The musical score by James Newton Howard is not nearly as impressive, relying on dated synthesizer sounds that sound cheesy today. Some of the more amusing aspects of the movie find our heroes getting used to "modern" society in 1986 when the era looks like ancient history today: girls with big hairdos in spandex involved in the new aerobics craze, not a cell phone in sight, slam dancing and the shocking novelty of accidentally walking into a gay bar.
Simmy Bow rose to fame as an actor, gracing the silver screen many times over the course of his Hollywood career. Early on, Simmy Bow mostly landed roles in various films, including "The Doberman Gang" (1972), the Michael Pataki comedy "Last Foxtrot In Burbank" (1973) and the sports drama "Rocky" (1976) with Sylvester Stallone. He also appeared in "End of the World" (1977) and "You Light Up My Life" (1977). He also was featured in the miniseries "The Blue Knight" (1973-74). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the seventies, appearing in the Kim Milford sci-fi motion picture "Laserblast" (1978), the fantasy "Adult Fairy Tales" (1978) with Don Sparks and "Dracula's Dog" (1978). Toward the end of his career, he tackled roles in "Little Miss Marker" (1980) with Walter Matthau, "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982) with Lee Horsley and the comedy adventure "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" (1985) with Paul Reubens. He also appeared in the Chris Makepeace comedy "Vamp" (1986) and the Burt Lancaster action picture "Tough Guys" (1986). Simmy Bow more recently acted in the Michael Keaton comedy "Beetlejuice" (1988).
Tough guys (Otra ciudad, otra ley en España y Dos tipos duros en Hispanoamérica) es una comedia cinematográfica de 1986 que fue dirigida por Jeff Kanew y protagonizada por Burt Lancaster y Kirk Douglas.
On the small screen, Young had a number of roles throughout the early Seventies, including an appearance on M*A*S*H. He also had a career on stage, including a memorable role opposite Robert De Niro and Ralph Macchio in Cuba and His Teddy Bear, a 1986 play about a drug dealer and his son.
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