Caught on a Train
Oct 31 1980
•1h 20m
•Drama, TV Movie
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). But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat (Peggy Ashcroft).
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Peggy Ashcroft
Frau Messner
Michael Kitchen
Peter
Wendy Raebeck
Lorraine
Ingo Mogendorf
Kellner
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