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Overview

User Rating:
5.5/10   1,239 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Colin Shindler (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 November 1988 (USA) more
Tagline:
Charming, lovable... and wanted for the crime of the century! more
Plot:
This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins more
User Comments:
Really Popular Movie When Released more (22 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Phil Collins ... Buster Edwards

Julie Walters ... June Edwards
Larry Lamb ... Bruce Reynolds
Stephanie Lawrence ... Franny Reynolds
Ellie Beaven ... Nicky Edwards
Michael Attwell ... Harry

Ralph Brown ... Ronny Biggs
Christopher Ellison ... George
Sheila Hancock ... Mrs. Rothery

Martin Jarvis ... Inspector Jack Mitchell
Clive Wood ... Sergeant Chalmers
Anthony Quayle ... Sir James McDowell
Michael Byrne ... Poyser
Harold Innocent ... Justice Parry
Rupert Vansittart ... Fairclough
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Two Hearts (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:
102 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The train used in the film in the robbery sequences is not the Number 37 like that in the real Great Train Robbery, it is a (reconstructed) Number 40 train. The locomotive was not a 'Number 40' it was a 'class 40'. The reference to being a 'number 37' is incorrect (a 'class 37' locomotive is a lesser powered loco from the same builder. Proper details are given below: The locomotive on the train involved in the Great Train Robbery was an English Electric type 4, class 40, locomotive number D326 (later 40126). By the time the film Buster was made D326 had been withdrawn from service and scrapped. Sister locomotive D306 (40106) - which was also withdrawn but had been preserved by enthusiasts on the Great Central Railway near Loughborough - substituted in robbery sequence of the film, which was filmed on the locomotive's home ground on the GCR. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
Buster Edwards: [addressing the audience. He is now a florist near Tower Bridge, several years after his release in 1980] You know, I've still got that dream...
June Edwards: [overhearing him, with a cup of hot chocolate] Buster, don't start that again!
Buster Edwards: No, dear
Buster Edwards: Well, I know it's still there.
[Buster and June walk off chatting about seeing their daughter Nikki who is now adult, and Buster looks at the camera, and his face is framed onto an envelope, when the credits start]
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Movie Connections:
References "The Saint" (1962) more
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How Do You Do It more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Really Popular Movie When Released, 5 January 2005
5/10
Author: retrogames from Scotland

This movie was a big hit at the cinema when it was first released and then again as a video rental....Those were the days! The soundtrack was also a big hit and most of the songs were chart hits on the back of the movie, and not just the Phil Collins songs who was at the height of his popularity as a solo artist at the time. The story and movie itself is far from being as bad as some of the reviews here make out, its an upbeat movie for the most part and still watchable. Phil Colins can act, although he hasn't really had the chance to show that in very many roles since. The fact that you could pick this movie up free on DVD recently with a newspaper and if you missed that offer can pop into any Poundland in the UK and pick it up for a pound (on a double bill with Diamond of Jeru) I'd recommend you looking it up...even only if its to hear that great soundtrack again..5/10

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