by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie Dickinson. Nelson plays a veteran outlaw who robs a bank less than 6 hours after being paroled from jail. He uses the money to reunite his old gang, then sets about to repeat the train robbery that had gotten him arrested 20 years earlier. This time, however, Nelson is himself targetted for theft by a young, hungrier band of desperadoes. Widmark plays the lawman who caught Nelson before and intends to do so again. Written and directed by the reliable Burt Kennedy, Once Upon a Texas Train premiered January 3, 1988.
characteristics
- One Last Heist
- Lock-up
- Lawman
- Outlaw [Western]
- Prison
- Aging
- Lawlessness
- Brig
- Bandit
- Jail
- Gunfight
- Gunman
- Gunslinger
- Train [locomotive]
- Training
