Product Details

• Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey
• Directors: Jeff Kanew
• Writers: James Orr, Jim Cruickshank
• Producers: Jana Sue Memel, Joe Wizan, Richard Hashimoto
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: August 2, 1988
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300276732
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,929 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A triumph for the "geriatric set", October 31, 2003

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tough Guys [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A cast of old pros (Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning, and a flat-out hilarious Eli Wallach) shine in a comic tale of nonconformity and criminal "readjustment".

As recently released cons trying to adjust to freedom, Lancaster and Douglas are in fine form. One really has compassion for all the amusing stumbling blocks that they, like many "elders", must endure. Smith, as the love interest of Lancaster, displays a beauty and elegance that can only be acquired by age. She possesses a stunning smile and gaze. Durning, as the police detective that captured the duo thirty years earlier, is relentless in his quest to prove that these "old dogs" haven't changed their spots.

Wallach, as the other reviewer has stated, is memorable as a bespeckled hit man with an agenda.

This may not rank along with other Lancaster-Douglas pairings like "Seven Days in May" or "The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but it does offer a last opportunity to see "originals" display their craft.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eli Wallach steals the show with his cameo role, June 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tough Guys [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have to say I do love this movie, it's pretty cool to see two aging ex-cons having trouble adjusting to society after a long stint in prison for robbing a train in their youth. Finding out the place they used to hang out at has been turned into a gay bar, trying to keep a job and causing a riot at an old folks home are all really cool. The two (Lancaster and Douglas) play their hearts out in this movie, too bad it was their last together.

Even though it was great to see the gruesome twosome working together again in a comedy, it was Eli Wallach (of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" fame) who stole the film for me as the blundering and also aging Hitman, Leon B. Little, who with his sarcasm, lack of good vision and shotgun provides the best humour. If anything, it is worth watching for his antics alone.

-agp

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF A KIND MOVIE, November 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tough Guys [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is very unique. It is the only movie that I can think of that sticks two of the greats from the golden age of film into a modern day comedy. Just to sit and watch these two act in this type of genre is terrific. What happened to this style of acting?
All and all a brilliant comedy.
Would love to see a DvD release.