ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In the late '70s, a disillusioned Johannesburg police officer, Andre Stander, turned his back on the laws he swore to enforce and started robbing banks. He went on to become ...

Johannesburg - Andre Stander is alive and well and living somewhere in the Eastern Cape where he is busy with cheque fraud, among other crimes, says Marlene Henn. Henn, an arms dealer at the time, was ...

We thought Hollywood had room for only one movie star named Tom. Mr. Cruise, that is. But The Punisher's Tom Jane (the artist formerly known as Thomas) has other ideas. Ads for his new indie film ...

In the 1980s, the news-starved South African public became enthralled by the story of a police captain who had undertaken a bank robbing spree in his spare time. André Stander would become a name ...

Following hot and fast on the heels of The Punisher, Thomas Jane's first big foray into the world of action movies, the actor returns to anti-hero territory with the true-life tale of Andre Stander, a ...

“Stander” opens with an aerial shot of Johannesburg, South Africa, its skyline interchangeable with that of many major U.S. cities -- until the shot abruptly gives way to the shanty rooftops of black ...

According to actor Tom Jane, actions really do speak louder than words. Slouching in a San Francisco hotel lounge, the star of "Stander," based on the true story of a South African police captain ...

WHEN he took the role of Andre Stander, a real Johannesburg cop turned criminal, Thomas Jane didn’t know all that much about South African history. “Apartheid conjures up ideas of scholastic horror,” ...

It's not like a girl from the suburbs of Toronto is born to direct a South African bank robber movie! Based on her previous features - 1996 kids romp Harriet The Spy and 1999 Sandra Bullock rom-com ...

Unconvincing blend of action and activism. In English and Afrikaans, with English subtitles. Running time: 111 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity, sex, drugs). At the Empire, the Sunshine and the ...

This article was corrected on September 25, 2003. Newmarket Film Group has picked up U.S. distribution rights to “Stander,” starring Thomas Jane. Directed by Bronwen Hughes (“Forces of Nature”), pic ...