Buster (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Buster

| director = David Green
writer = Colin Shindler
starring = Phil Collins
Julie Walters
producer = Norma Heyman
distributor = Hemdale Film
music = Anne Dudley
released = November 23 1988
runtime = 102 m
country = UK
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0094819 |

"Buster" is the name of a 1988 comedy-drama film starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock. Its soundtrack featured two Collins singles which eventually topped the Billboard 100 singles chart.

It tells a romanticised version of the true story of the Great Train Robbery of 1963, focusing more on the character of train robber Buster Edwards and his subsequent flight from justice than on the robbery itself.

The robbery scenes were filmed on the Great Central Railway, using British Rail Class 40, D306, as a stand-in for D326 which was actually involved.

Several Collins singles were released from the soundtrack, including "Groovy Kind of Love" and "Two Hearts", which reached #1 and #6 on the UK Singles Chart respectively. Both songs were Number One singles in the US.cite book |title= Rock N' Roll Gold Rush |last= Dean |first= Maury |authorlink= Maury Dean |coauthors= |year= 2003 |publisher= Algora |location= |isbn= 0-87586-207-1 |pages= 160 |url= ]

Out of respect for Jack Mills, the driver of the mail train who was coshed by the thieves during the robbery, the film was denied a cinematic release in his home town of Crewe. Mills never fully recovered from his injuries and was unable to return to work following the robbery. He died in 1970 of leukaemia.

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*imdb title|id=0094819|title=Buster