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Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Bradley's memoir, A Soldier's ...
Patton's army had beaten General Bernard Montgomery to Messina which gained him considerable fame, [9] although the infamous slapping incident sidelined his career for several months thereafter. [10] [11] At the time of the speeches, Patton was attempting to keep a low profile among the press, as he had been ordered to by General Dwight Eisenhower.
Patton questions whether he may have participated in the Crucifixion of Jesus, imagines previous lives as a hunter-gatherer in search of mammoth, and explores historic battles, including the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), Siege of Tyre (332 BC), Roman–Parthian Wars (54 BC – 217 AD), Battle of Crécy (1346), and Battle of Waterloo (1815 ...
Several actors have portrayed Patton on screen, most famously George C. Scott in the 1970 film Patton, for which he won (and refused) the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in 1986 in the made-for-television film The Last Days of Patton which tells the story of his last few months. [248] Other actors who have portrayed Patton ...
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Back when the Fox Movie Channel used to run their Fox Legacy feature with the then Fox president Tom Rothman, they had one on the film Patton. I'm pretty sure in his introduction to the film he said the original intention was for the movie to have an intermission (which was still common for big Hollywood movies then), and Patton's speech would ...
The film was produced by Berle Adams and Arthur Lewis and directed by John Hough. [3] It stars Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow. [4] The film's plot concerns General George S. Patton's fatal automobile crash and suggests that the crash was not an accident but the result of a ...
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