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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.

19861h 44mPGComedy, Crime

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About Tough Guys

Directors
Jeff Kanew
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, Eli Wallach
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Content rating
PG
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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