Product Information
Pop star Phil Collins and Julie Walters (MAMA MIA!) team up for this drama in which they appear as Buster Edwards and his wife June, a couple intrinsically linked to the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fallout that occurred in its wake.Product Identifiers
ProducerJohn Daly
EAN5034741237314
eBay Product ID (ePID)3944953
Product Key Features
ActorMichael Attwell, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Ralph Brown, Clive Wood, Julie Walters, Anthony Quayle, Phil Collins, Martin Jarvis, Larry Lamb
Film/TV TitleBuster
DirectorDavid Green
LanguageEnglish
Run Time93 Mins
Aspect Ratio4:3
Release Year2005
FormatDVD
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerAnne Dudley
Additional InformationOn August 8, 1963, the Royal Mail train, on its night time run from London to Glasgow, was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million pounds (today the equivalent of $35 million). BUSTER tells the story of one of the junior robbers, Buster Edwards (played by pop singer Phil Collins), in a crime that came to be known as the Great Train Robbery. The 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 (Julie Walters). The Edwards are like a British Kramden family, trying to make ends meet from day-to-day in their rental apartment, but instead of a bus driver, Buster is a two-bit thief who has the fine luck of hardly ever getting caught. After the Royal mail train robbery, the heat intensifies, since the Conservative Government, already smarting from the Profumo scandal, latches onto the train robbery as a means to deflect attention from the scandal by bringing the train robbers quickly to justice. Buster and June go into hiding and have a series of close calls before finally escaping to Mexico. Finally in paradise, the Edwards find their money quickly being eaten up and discover that they cannot adapt to the Mexico milieu. June, for her part, is homesick, and Buster, always ready to keep her happy, makes the grand gesture -- to return to England and turn himself in to the police.
ScreenwriterColin Shindler, David Shindler
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleBuster
Director of PhotographyTony Imi