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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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.
