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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.
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- Peter Duffell
- 1980-10-31
The play stars Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner and Michael Kitchen as Peter, and the main supporting cast features Wendy Raebeck as Lorraine and Michael Sheard as Preston. The soundtrack was written by the jazz composer Mike Westbrook. [4] The play won a BAFTA Television Award and other plaudits in 1980. [5] [6]
In addition to the Oscar and BAFTA awards, she received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for Old World in 1976, a Venice Film Festival Award for She's Been Away (1989), a BAFTA Award for the television play Caught on a Train (1980), a special award from the British Theatre Association for the television play Cream in My Coffee (1982), a special award from BAFTA (1990 ...
Peter (Michael Kitchen) is Caught on a train in Stephen Poliakoff's comedic drama. Travelling across Europe, he finds himself in a carriage with the irritating Frau Messner (Peggy Ashcroft), the busy-body Preston (Michael Sheard), the fairly indifferent Kellner and the lovely Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck).
It stars Dame Peggy Ashcroft, in one of her best-remembered television roles, and a young Michael Kitchen giving a tremendous performance opposite her. Set on the Ostend-Vienna Express, it was inspired by a memorably uncomfortable journey which Poliakoff took as a young man.
Cast: Peggy Ashcroft (Frau Messner), Michael Kitchen (Peter), Wendy Raebeck (Lorraine), Michael Sheard (Preston), Ingo Mogendorf (Kellner), Louis Sheldon (Dietrich) Show full cast and credits
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