Buster (1988) on Netflix
In 1963 London, petty crook Buster Edwards joins Bruce Reynolds's firm to rob a Royal Mail train. Inspector Mitchell, an old school friend of Buster's, wants to keep in touch.
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Plot summary
Buster Edwards, a small-time crook from Lambeth, lives in London in 1963 with his wife June, who sees him as a lovable rogue. He steals a suit from a shop and wears it to a funeral, where he runs into Inspector Mitchell, a policeman who was at school with him and wants to keep in touch. Buster takes Harry, recently out of prison after eighteen months, to meet the ring-leader Bruce Reynolds. Harry asks to be included, and the firm makes plans to rob a Royal Mail train said to be carrying up to a million pounds in cash.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Buster (1988)
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- Buster caused controversy for making a hero of Buster Edwards and glamourising a brutal crime, and Prince Charles and Princess Diana canceled their attendance at the film's 15 September 1988 premiere on the advice of Phil Collins, who wanted to avoid causing them "embarrassment".
- The real Buster Edwards plays a small cameo in the film, walking out of Acapulco airport 62 minutes in with his girlfriend, who is played by Phil Collins's wife.
- For the robbery scenes the filmmakers used a preserved Class 40 locomotive, D306 (later 40106), at the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire, fitting it with fake head code boxes so it resembled the real locomotive D326.
