Private Potter
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Director Caspar Wrede Music director George Hall | 6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Casper Wrede , Ronald Harwood Release date 1962 Screenplay Caspar Wrede, Ronald Harwood Cast Tom Courtenay (Pvt Potter), James Maxwell (Lt Col Harry Gunyon), Ronald Fraser (Doctor), Mogens Wieth (Yannis), Eric Thompson (Capt John Knowles)Similar movies Tom Courtenay and others appear in Private Potter and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Private Potter is a 1962 British drama film directed by Caspar Wrede and starring Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, and James Maxwell.
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Plot
During the Cyprus Emergency, 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 as an ITV Television Playhouse production and featured the same main cast. Finnish-born director Caspar Wrede first spotted Tom 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
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