Once Upon a Texas Train

• Director: Burt Kennedy
• Genre: Western
• Themes: One Last Heist
• Main Cast: Angie Dickinson, Willie Nelson, Richard Widmark
• Release Year: 1988
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jeb Stuart Adams - Billy Bates; John Calkins - James Brown; Harry Carey, Jr. - Herald Pitch; Shaun Cassidy - Cotton; Lisa Cloud - Attendant; Don Collier - Warden; Chuck Connors - Nash Crawford; Ken Curtis; Royal Dano - Nitro Jones; Angie Dickinson - Maggie; Jack Elam - Jason Fitch; Gene Evans - Fargo Parker; Dennis Fimple - Telegrapher; John Furlong - Wid Miller; David Michael O'Neill - John Young; Dub Taylor; Red West - Bates Boley; Stuart Whitman - George Asque; Richard Widmark - Captain Oren Hayes; Hank Worden - Old Timer; Kevin McCarthy - The Govenor; Willie Nelson - John Henry Lee; Clare Carey - Meg Boley

Credit

Bill Ross - Art Director, Ross Brown - Casting, Mary West - Casting, Burt Kennedy - Director, Warner E. Leighton - Editor, Arthur B. Rubinstein - Composer (Music Score), Jody Lawrance - Makeup, Ken Lamkin - Cinematographer, Hal Galli - Production Manager, Burt Kennedy - Producer, Burt Kennedy - Screenwriter