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Private Potter is a 1962 British drama film directed by Caspar Wrede and starring Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser and James Maxwell.[1][2]

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Private Potter
Directed by	Casper Wrede
Screenplay by	Ronald Harwood Casper Wrede
Produced by	Ben Arbeid
Starring	Tom Courtenay Mogens Wieth Ronald Fraser James Maxwell Frank Finlay
Cinematography	Arthur Lavis
Edited by	John Pomeroy
Music by	George Hall
Production company	MGM-British Studios
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	1962 (1962)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

During the Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959), the eponymous Private Potter is a soldier who claims that the reason he cried out leading to the death of a comrade was that he saw a vision of God. There is then a debate over whether he should be court-martialled.

Cast

• Tom Courtenay as Private Potter
• Mogens Wieth as Yannis
• Ronald Fraser as Doctor
• James Maxwell as Lieutenant Colonel Harry Gunyon
• Ralph Michael as Padre
• Brewster Mason as Brigadier
• Eric Thompson as Captain John Knowles
• John Graham as Major Sims
• Frank Finlay as Captain Patterson
• Harry Landis as Lance Corporal Lamb
• Michael Coles as Private Robertson
• Jeremy Geidt as Major Reid
• Fulton Mackay as Soldier

Production

The screenplay was written by Ronald Harwood for a television play that was broadcast on ITV in 1961 featuring some of the same main cast, including Tom Courtenay, and Caspar Wrede again as director.[3] Finnish-born director Wrede first spotted Courtenay while he was still at RADA and the leading role of the fragile young soldier who wilts under pressure was his first film appearance.

References

External links

• Private Potter at IMDb

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