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.
Acting
Lancaster & Douglas, 70, doing their own stunts.
Cinematography
Glossy 80s sheen on a sepia-toned nostalgia trip.
Practical Effects
Real train stunts with two septuagenarian movie stars.
Director
Jeff Kanew
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
Hilary Shepard
Sandy
Jake Steinfeld
Howard
Arthur Tovey
First Old Man Eating
Anthony Kiedis
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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the final on-screen pairing of Lancaster and Douglas after seven films together over four decades.
The film gently mocks 1980s fitness culture through Archie's gym obsession—Douglas himself was a notorious fitness fanatic.
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