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Joke about engine-driver

posted 16 years ago by prterry
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This is quite a good film, BUT the title-song has a line about "crack went the black-jack on the engine-driver's head", which is a bit sick. The engine driver in the actual Great Train Robbery was severely beaten, so this joke isn't funny; neither is the portrayal of the Great Train Robbers in the film "Buster" as lovable rogues - they were anything but.

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 13 years ago

I thought I misheard that line at first - it IS quite thoughtless. The driver didn't die till several years later so maybe at the time it didn't seem quite so cruel.

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