Private Potter
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| Private Potter | |
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| 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 |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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][3] The screenplay was by Wrede and Ronald Harwood.
During the Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959) 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.[4] Finnish-born director Wrede first spotted Courtenay while he was still at RADA[citation needed] and the leading role of the fragile young soldier who wilts under pressure was his first film appearance.