In their younger days, Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster made six films together, and in their final pairing Tough Guys, they're absolutely adorable. They play bank robbers, released from prison after thirty years. Since the last time they saw the outside world was the mid-1950s, they're shocked by the culture they now see!Yes, both former hunks have a few miles on them and a different hair color than they used to, but both of them look fantastic and are full of vigor and charm. Burt Lancaster gets sent to an old folks' home, but rest assured he won't be happy with the restrictive rules. He's got plenty of fight left in him, ladies! And you girls who had crushes on Kirk Douglas will delight in seeing him adapt to his new surroundings, including 80s fashions, nightclubs, and a relationship with a younger woman.Tough Guys is hilarious and super cute, and a must-see for Burt or Kirk fans. They're both wonderful in this classic "old guys still got it" movie. Once you watch it, you'll want to watch it over and over again, to relive your favorite moments involving ice cream, dance clubs, food fights, and more. James Orr and Jim Cruickshank's script is chalk-full of fantastic one-liners, seamlessly blending the generation gap between the '50s and the '80s. It's got comedy, romance, a touch of drama, action, and suspense-it's got it all, but it wouldn't be anything without it's two leading men, the two tough guys.

Harry Doyle (Burt Lancaster) and Archie Long (Kirk Douglas) are old gangsters who were sentenced together to 30 years in prison for a famous train robbery of The Gold Coast Flyer. They are the last train robbers and The Gold Coast Flyer is set to retire. They are released and ready to collect Social Security. Their parole officer Richie Evans (Dana Carvey) is an eager fan. Leon B. Little (Eli Wallach) is a Mr. Magoo assassin taking shots after waiting for 30 years to fulfill his contract. Harry insists on the straight and narrow. He even stops a bank robbery but is forced into a retirement home where he reconnects with Belle (Alexis Smith). The guys are forbidden to see each other for 3 years. Archie gets a job at a ice cream parlor and starts dating Skye (Darlanne Fluegel). Sgt Deke Yablonski (Charles Durning) arrested the guys in the first place but is now reduced to doing payroll. He is sure that the guys are up to no good and is willing to push them.It's great to have these old timers. They have good chemistry together. They are forced to be apart which doesn't help. The comedy around them is a little cheesy. The movie overplays the fish out of water theme. The movie world is done very broadly. Despite various little problems, these two veterans pull the movie through with their charisma.

Watched it again on late night TV. Still funny after all these years. You could still see the occasional flashes of the old Kirk D, chilling look etc and Burt still has the movement of an athlete even at age 73, and his trade mark mirthless laugh but it was Eli Wallach who stole the film, absolutely brilliant. I think his character was stolen by the writers of a BBC TV comedy called "Last of the Summer Wine" which has a very short sighted character called Eli. So many scenes were so good that it makes it difficult to pick the best but I think the scene outside the old folks home is excellent when Leon B. Little picks himself up using the Zimmer frame, cruel but funny.The ending was a bit of an anticlimax (same comment applies to "The Blues Brothers".

It was nice to see aging superstars Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas together as a pair of old train robbers back on the streets after 30 years in jail. However, the story is a little hard to take with any credibility and - call me old-fashioned - I didn't care to see and hear a couple of "classic film" stars involved in modern-day sleaze.As someone who has seen thousands of classic films, it just seems odd to see two famous actors in a film like this with the profanity and sex, although I had already seen Lancaster in "Atlantic City" (1980). Still, seeing a hot 25-year-old falling for Douglas and the two having sex all night, was a little strange to witness. The major part of the "credibility gap," however, was how unreal they made all the other characters in the film. All these two guys confront, after getting out of jail, are horrible people, unrealistically horrible, one after the other. Everyone is incredibly rude, obnoxious and just plain nasty to our two old friends. It's overdone so much it's ridiculous. The world can be a bad place, but, come on - it's not THAT bad!The story was that people were so rotten and that life was so miserable that the two fellas were forced to go back into bank robbing. Ahhh, what an inspiring story!!