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Private Potter is a film of genre Drama directed by Casper Wrede with Tom Courtenay

Private Potter (1962)

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Length 1h29
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating59% 2.9543552.9543552.9543552.9543552.954355

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

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Tom Courtenay

(Pvt. Potter)Mogens Wieth

(Yannis)Ronald Fraser

(Doctor)James Maxwell

(Lt. Col. Harry Gunyon)Frank Finlay

(Capt. Patterson)
And :
Ralph Michael
Brewster Mason
Eric Thompson
Jeremy Geidt
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