Tough Guys

This article is about the 1986 comedy. For other uses, see Tough Guys (disambiguation).
Tough Guys
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJeff Kanew
Written byJames Cruikshank
James Orr
Produced byJoe Wizan
Starring
CinematographyKing Baggot
Edited byKaja Fehr
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution Co.
Release date
  • October 3, 1986 (1986-10-03)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million[1]
Box office$21.5 million (US/Canada)[2]

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. It is the eighth film of Touchstone Pictures, and the final film to be released from Douglas's Bryna Productions.

Lancaster and Douglas had already made several films together, including I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the O.K. 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. 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. Tough Guys was their final collaboration.

Adolph Caesar, who was originally going to star as Leon B. Little, died of complications from a heart attack on the set of the film[3] and was replaced by Eli Wallach.

This was the first film released under the Touchstone Pictures label after Walt Disney Studios changed the name of the label from Touchstone Films, following the release of Ruthless People (1986).

  1. ^ "AFI listing". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  2. ^ "Tough Guys". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  3. ^ Robert W. Stewart (March 7, 1986). "Adolph Caesar : Fatal Heart Attack Fells Actor on Set". latimes.com. Retrieved July 19, 2020.