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  1. Written by Stephen Poliakoff and Directed by Peter Duffell. 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.

  2. 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).

  3. 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.

  4. Nov 29, 2023 · 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. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive.

  5. 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 decision has consequences which he could never have anticipated.

  6. Synopsis. 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).

  7. Caught on a Train. 1980. 2 hr 0 mins. Drama, Suspense. NR. Watchlist. Slow-moving story of a business traveller (Michael Kitchen) on a nightmarish train journey. Frau Messner: Peggy...