Details

Subjects:

Poliakoff, Stephen, 1952 -- -Film adaptations.
Railroad travel -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Feature films.
Motion pictures, British.
Feature films.

System Details:

DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital.

Summary:

An overnight train trip through Europe becomes a profoundly unsettling odyssey for an English businessman sharing a compartment with a beautiful young American and an imperious Viennese dowager.

Participant:

Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen.

Credits:

Music, Mike Westbrook.

Notes:

Based on the play by Stephen Poliakoff.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.
Aspect ratio 4:3.
Special features: background featurette with writer Stephen Poliakoff, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and others; commentary with Stephen Poliakoff and producer Kenith Trodd; filmographies.
Originally broacast as part of BBC playhouse Oct. 31, 1980.
Special features: background featurette with writer Stephen Poliakoff, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and others; commentary with Stephen Poliakoff and producer Kenith Trodd; filmographies; scene selection.
Winner of three BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Awards), including best single drama.

Local notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Contributor:

Duffell, Peter. , Director
Trodd, Kenith. , Producer
Ashcroft, Peggy, Dame. , Actor
Kitchen, Michael. , Actor
Westbrook, Mike. , Composer
Poliakoff, Stephen, 1952- , Author
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service. , Producer
Time-Life Films. , Producer
Acorn Media (Firm) , Distributor
Westbrook, Mike.
Trodd, Kenith.
Poliakoff, Stephen, 1952-
Duffell, Peter.
Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.
Kitchen, Michael, 1948-
Raebeck, Wendy.
Acorn Media.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Time-Life Films.

Related Work:

Poliakoff, Stephen, 1952-, Author Caught on a train.

ISBN:

1569387141

OCLC:

55492206

Publisher Number:

054961714193
AMP-7141 Acorn Media