Private Potter

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

Private Potter
Directed byCasper Wrede
Produced byBen Arbeid
Screenplay byRonald Harwood
Casper Wrede
StarringTom Courtenay
Mogens Wieth
Ronald Fraser
James Maxwell
Frank Finlay
Music byGeorge Hall
CinematographyArthur Lavis
Edited byJohn Pomeroy
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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

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.[1] 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
  1. "Private Potter (1961)". BFI. Retrieved 9 September 2020.


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