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.
Burt Lancaster
as Harry Doyle
Kirk Douglas
as Archie Long
Charles Durning
as Deke Yablonski
Alexis Smith
as Belle
Dana Carvey
as Richie Evans
Eli Wallach
as Leon B. Little
Billy Barty
as Philly
Darlanne Fluegel
as Skye
Darlene Conley
as Gladys Ripps
Nathan Davis
as Jimmy Ellis
Hilary Shepard
as Sandy
Jake Steinfeld
as Howard