Singer Phil Collins makes his screen debut as Buster Edwards one of the notorious Great Train Robbers who skipped to South America but who eventually came back to face the music. Julie Walters is excellent as his wife and the soundtrack features Collins' Top 10 hits 'Two Hearts' and 'Groovy Kind of Love'.
In 1987, Buster was as much an experiment in film as its subject matter was in robbery. Could audiences ignore the rock singer status of Phil Collins in the lead role? Would audiences still be interested in a 25-year-old cash grab that had been considerably devalued by a currency gone metric? By and large the answer to both was "yes", helped considerably by a high budget (for a British film) it perfectly remade the 1960s experience. Collins as Buster Edwards is only one of a gang who all seem doomed to be captured after their £2.5 million train heist. The caper is over within 30 minutes. However, the film is really about the love story between Buster and his doting yet long-suffering wife June (an excellent Julie Walters). When the action switches to sun-drenched Mexico, you just know her loyalty is going to be tested to extremes because that's when Collins' award-winning songs kick in! "Two Hearts" and "Groovy Kind of Love" may not be 60s-styled, but the message is that love always conquers time and place.On the DVD: The transfer is rather average, as are the talent profiles of Collins, Walters, Ralph Brown (the legendary Ronnie Biggs), and director David Green. Making up for them is a 50-minute "Making of" featurette that interviews everyone involved, including the real-life Buster. There's lots of on-set tomfoolery, and some first attempts at the hit songs that hardly flatter Collins' live singing voice! --Paul Tonks
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A family man... A dreamer... A thief.... On the 8th August 1963 the Royal Mail train on it's night time run from London to Glasgow was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million. Buster tells the story of one of the junior robbers Buster Edwards in a crime that came to be known as 'The Great Train Robbery'. This film details the planning of the famous heist but its main concern is Buster's relationship with his family and his devotion to his wife June. The Edwards a
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A Family Man... A Dreamer... A Thief
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