Film
Caught on a Train
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Peter Duffell
- Year
- 1980
British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter, an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine. But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat.
Top cast
Peggy Ashcroft
Frau Messner
Michael Kitchen
Peter
Wendy Raebeck
Lorraine
Michael Sheard
Preston
Ingo Mogendorf
Kellner
Louis Sheldon Williams
Dietrich
Michael Kingsbury
Hans
John Dolan
Small Man in Mac
Christopher Frederick
German Guard
Ken Shaw
German Guard
Terry Gurry
Belgian Guard
Baron Casanov
Fat Man
Martin Phillips
Belgian Youth
Richard Merson
Porter
Lex van Delden
Waiter
Sean Barry-Weske
Steward
Directed by
Peter Duffell
Written by
Stephen Poliakoff
Produced by
Kenith Trodd