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Caught on a Train: Directed by Peter Duffell. With Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck, Michael Sheard. Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment.
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- Drama
- Peter Duffell
- 1980-10-31
Caught on a train remains one of the most powerful British TV films to ever grace the small screen. Peter, an ambitious young publisher chooses to take a transcontinental train to travel to a book fair in Germany than fly.
This BAFTA award-winning film was made in 1980 and shot on location in Europe. It stars Dame Peggy Ashcroft, in one of her best-remembered television roles, and a young Michael Kitchen giving a tremendous performance opposite her.
Overview. British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck).
Slow-moving story of a business traveller (Michael Kitchen) on a nightmarish train journey. Frau Messner: Peggy Ashcroft. Lorraine: Wendy Raebeck. Preston: Michael Sheard. Kellner: Ingo Mogendorf.
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Caught on a Train is a British television play written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Peter Duffell, based on an overnight train journey across Europe, and following the route of a journey that Poliakoff had himself made from London to Vienna.
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Directed by Peter Duffell. British playwright Stephen Poliakoff’s comical teleplay investigates Europe’s changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck).
