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    Buster (1988)

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    Although he’s best known as a musician, Phil Collins actually began his showbusiness career as a child actor. Here, he takes on his first lead movie role, playing Buster Edwards, one of the gang involved in the 1963 Great Train Robbery.

    Julie Walters plays his wife and they make the most of their roles as lovably cheeky cockney sparrers chirruping away in Acapulco after fleeing London.

    EastEnders-style clichés fall as thick and fast as the pair’s “aitches”, and, while Collins does his best, it’s Walters who steals the limelight as a woman missing the comforts of home.

    Too squeaky clean to be believable, this is an entertaining but fairy-tale view of law-breaking.

     

    Buster Edwards
    Phil Collins
    June Edwards
    Julie Walters
    Bruce Reynolds
    Larry Lamb
    Franny Reynolds
    Stephanie Lawrence
    Nicky Edwards
    Ellen Beaven
    Harry
    Michael Attwell
    Ronnie
    Ralph Brown
    George
    Christopher Ellison
    Mrs Rothery
    Sheila Hancock
    Inspector Jack Mitchell
    Martin Jarvis
    Sergeant Chalmers
    Clive Wood
    Sir James McDowell
    Anthony Quayle
    Poyser
    Michael Byrne
    Justice Parry
    Harold Innocent
    Fairclough
    Rupert Vansittart
    Jimmy
    John Benfield
    Walter
    John Barrard
    Linda
    Carole Collins
    Susan
    Amy Shindler

    Director
    David Green

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