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

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.

Irritatingly inconsistent, he tediously over-emphasises that the slightest sound will ruin the initial military operation, and then allows some fairly noisy conversation among the men and staccato drumbeats behind the actual advance.

Deprived even of the sort of significance it could so easily have had as the first sound to pierce a perfectly preserved silence, Potter's cry makes little impact: what is worse, the soldier's strange predicament never arouses much more than academic interest.

The playing of the officers, however, sometimes displays that seeming lack of total involvement that can result from an uneasy amalgam of old school and "new wave" styles of acting, but in this case more obviously originates in an unconvincing script.