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