![]() ![]() ![]() Archie's young female restaurant manager mistreats him, while Harry is denied proper food by a nasty retirement home orderly and the female manager is even nastier. They cannot have further contact with each other for at least three years, and are closely monitored by Richie and Deke Yablonski, the officer who first arrested them.īoth Harry and Archie are in shock at how much the world has changed: clothing, sexuality (their old bar is now an openly gay men's club, women are more assertive), technology, and disrespect from youth. Archie, only 67, takes a job first at an ice cream parlor and later a restaurant. Harry, at 72, is committed to a retirement community despite wanting to work, he is past the mandatory retirement age of 70. Richie informs them of their parole conditions. Then, they trash six young street punks trying to rob them. Little, an elderly hitman with bad eyesight and an outstanding contract on them, immediately tries to kill them but Harry and Archie get away.Īt the bank, the duo stop a robbery taking down the two young armed gunmen. Their parole officer Richie Evans meets them at the gates, offering them a ride to collect their Social Security. Gangsters Harry Doyle and Archie Long are released from prison after having served a 30-year sentence for hijacking the Southern Pacific train the Gold Coast Flyer in 1956. This was the first film released under the Touchstone Pictures name following its rebranding by Walt Disney Studios, after the release of Ruthless People (1986). Little, died of complications from a heart attack on the set of the film and was replaced by Eli Wallach. Tough Guys was their final collaboration.Īdolph Caesar, who was originally going to star as Leon B. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and The List of Adrian Messenger, in which Lancaster cameoed, their roles were more or less of equal importance. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), and Seven Days in May (1964), becoming something of a team in the public's eye. ![]() Lancaster and Douglas had already made several films together, including I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the O.K. It is the eighth film of Touchstone Pictures, and the final film to be released from Douglas' Bryna Productions. Len lives in Connecticut with his wife Debbie, and writes frequently for the Westport Unitarian Church Special Projects and Chamber choirs.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. On the production end, Len has served as Music Supervisor for the ABC daytime television drama, "Loving." He has served as executive producer on albums by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Carl Perkins, Kansas, BB King, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zant, John Entwistle, Roger Miller, Bill Monroe, Renaissance and many more. Len's song "The Last Day of Forever" was recently featured in the film Sheeba, starring Ed Asner and Judge Reinhold. Schirmer, Novello, Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Co., and The Reader's Digest Association.Ī recent Emmy nomination for Best Original Song ("Fool's Gold") along with featured songs on network television dramas Guiding Light, Another World, and As The World Turns, have kept Len busy writing. Len has sat on both sides of the desk, having held full-time music editorial positions with G. 1 For Guitar and Orchestra was premiered by Claude Monteaux and the Haydn Festival Orchestra. Len toured nationally with the flute & guitar duo Herrick & Handler, and has been guitar accompanist for Lannie Kazan, Howard Keel, and Jerome Hines, as well as guitar soloist in stage productions with Charles Durning, Barbara Barrie, Ralph Waite and Jose Ferrer. As a performer, Len was stage guitarist for the original Broadway production of the musical Man of LaMancha, and has performed as guitar soloist with the New York City Ballet, New York Shakespeare Festival, and NBC's Mike Douglas Show. Len Handler studied music composition with Frederick Werle and classical guitar with Leonid Bolotine at the Mannes College of Music, as well as orchestration and choral writing with Edward Thompson. ![]()
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