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Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.


“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.

Burt Lancaster
Harry Doyle

Kirk Douglas
Archie Long

Charles Durning
Deke Yablonski

Alexis Smith
Belle

Dana Carvey
Richie Evans

Eli Wallach
Leon B. Little

Billy Barty
Philly

Darlanne Fluegel
Skye

Darlene Conley
Gladys Ripps

Nathan Davis
Jimmy Ellis
Tough Guys is a comedy, crime film released in 1986 exploring themes of prison, train robbery, ex-con. Directed by Jeff Kanew, it stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning. 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.
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