Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. How could they get into trouble at their age? Let's count the ways; A parole officer who is a famous criminal groupie, Dead end where people don't know they are dealing with dangerous, though older, criminals, a hit man who can barely see, but who still has an outstanding contract on them. Does anyone still rob trains?


Books with substantial mentioning of Tough Guys

David Fury
The Cinema History of Burt Lancaster
Minneapolis, MN, 1989

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1987, A Survey of the Films of 1986
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987
pp. 442-446 info