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Patton
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Franklin J. Schaffner
Screenplay past	Francis Ford Coppola Edmund H. North
Story by	Francis Ford Coppola Edmund H. Northward
Based on	Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago A Soldier's Story by Omar N. Bradley
Produced by	Frank McCarthy
Starring	George C. Scott Karl Malden
Cinematography	Fred J. Koenekamp
Edited by	Hugh Fowler
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	December 4, 1969 (1969-12-04) (Premiere) February five, 1970 (1970-02-05) (New York Metropolis)
Running time	172 minutes
Land	United States
Languages	English German French Russian
Budget	$12.6 million[1]
Box office	$45 million (rentals) [2]

Patton , is a 1970 American ballsy biographical war motion picture about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. Information technology stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden every bit General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script past 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 Story.

Patton won seven Academy Awards, including Best Flick, All-time Director and All-time Original Screenplay. Scott too won the Academy Award for Best Histrion for his portrayal of General Patton, just declined to accept the honor.^[three] The opening monologue, delivered by Scott equally General Patton with an enormous American flag behind him, remains an iconic and often quoted paradigm in film. In 2003, Patton was selected for preservation in the United States National Pic Registry by the Library of Congress every bit beingness "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Annal as well preserved Patton in 2003.^[four]

Plot [edit]

General George S. Patton addresses an unseen audience of American troops, emphasizing the importance Americans place upon victorious part models every bit well as his own demands that his men defeat the enemy past working and fighting every bit a squad.

In its outset encounter with the German Afrika Korps at Kasserine, the Two Corps is humiliatingly defeated past General Erwin Rommel, whom Patton places in loftier regard as a well respected rival. Equally a consequence, Patton is placed in control of Ii Corps and immediately begins instilling subject field amidst his untested troops. Alongside the poor condition of American soldiers in the II Corps, Patton also identifies the stubbornness of his British counterpart; General Bernard Montgomery constantly undermines American forces in order to monopolize the war celebrity. Patton'south hazard to testify his worth comes at the subsequent Battle of El Guettar where Patton defeats the advancing German forces.

The eventual Allied victory in North Africa prompts both Patton and Montgomery to come up with competing plans for the Sicily invasion. Patton's plan, drawn from reference to the Peloponnesian War highlights the strategic importance of Syracuse; if it fell to an occupying strength, the Italians would surely withdraw. Patton proposes that Montgomery captures Syracuse, whereas he will country near Palermo and then capture Messina to cut off the withdrawal. Though the plan initially impresses Full general Alexander, to whom Patton and Montgomery report, General Eisenhower turns it down in favor of Montgomery's more cautious plan that the two armies land side-by-side in the south-east, essentially relegating Patton to guarding the left flank of the British accelerate. Angered by the lack of progress beingness made, Patton thrusts west and captures Palermo, before beating Montgomery to Messina. Patton's edgeless aggression sits poorly with his subordinates Omar Bradley and Lucian Truscott. During a visit to a field infirmary, Patton notices a soldier, crying out of shell stupor. Surmising that the soldier isn't actually physically injured, Patton slaps the soldier and threatens to shoot him for his cowardice and demands he return to the frontline. Eisenhower demands Patton repent to his entire command for the altercation. Though Patton obliges, he is stunned to discover out that Bradley, not he, has been given control of American forces preparing for the invasion of French republic.

With the Invasion of Normandy due to start, Patton is placed in accuse of the fictional Commencement U.s. Regular army Group as a decoy in London, the Centrolineal consensus assertive that his presence in England will tell the Germans that he will atomic number 82 the invasion of Europe. At a war drive in Knutsford, Patton openly remarks that the post-war world volition exist dominated by British and American influence, seen equally a slight to the Soviet Marriage. Though Patton objects to having done annihilation wrong, the situation has already spiraled from his control. The decision to send him dwelling or continue him in England rests upon General George Marshall. Though he is not nowadays during the D-Day landings, Patton is given command of the Tertiary Army by General Bradley, at present his superior. Under Patton's leadership, the Third Army sweeps brilliantly across France only is unexpectedly brought to a halt when the supplies are diverted to Montgomery's aggressive Operation Market Garden.

During the Battle of the Burl Patton devises a plan to relieve the trapped 101st Airborne Partitioning in Bastogne, which he does before smashing through the Siegfried Line and into Germany.

Frg eventually capitulates, though Patton's outspokenness lands him in problem once again when he compares American politics to Nazism. Though he loses his command in one case again, Patton is kept on to meet the rebuilding of Deutschland in the postal service state of war period. In a final scene Patton is seen walking Willie, his bull terrier. Patton's vocalization is heard:

"For over a k years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the laurels of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and foreign animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquistador rode in a triumphal chariot, the mazed prisoners walking in chains earlier him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood backside the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a alert: that all celebrity ... is fleeting."

Cast [edit]

• George C. Scott as Lieutenant General George S. Patton
• Karl Malden as Lieutenant Full general Omar N. Bradley
• David Bauer as Lieutenant Full general Harry Buford
• Edward Binns as Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith
• John Doucette as Major General Lucian Truscott
• Michael Potent every bit Brigadier General Hobart Carver
• Peter Barkworth as Colonel John Welkin
• Lawrence Dobkin as Colonel Gaston Bell
• Paul Stevens as Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Codman
• Morgan Paull as Helm Richard Due north. Jenson
• Stephen Young as Captain Chester B. Hansen
• James Edwards every bit Sergeant William George Meeks
• Tim Considine as a shell-shocked soldier
• Michael Bates as General Bernard Montgomery
• Jack Gwillim as General Sir Harold Alexander
• Gerald Inundation as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
• John Barrie as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham
• Frank Latimore as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport
• Karl Michael Vogler as Field Align Erwin Rommel
• Richard Münch as Colonel General Alfred Jodl
• Siegfried Rauch as Captain Oskar Steiger

Product [edit]

Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Rod Steiger all turned down the role of Patton;^{[5] [6]} Steiger later said information technology was his greatest mistake.^[vii] Charlton Heston was considered for the role of Omar Northward. Bradley before Karl Malden was cast.^[8]

Development [edit]

Attempts to brand a pic about the life of Patton had been ongoing since he died in 1945, but his widow, Beatrice, resisted.^[9] After her death in 1953, producer Frank McCarthy began the project and, the day after Beatrice was buried, the producers contacted the family unit for help in making the film, requesting access to Patton's diaries, also equally input from family members, but the family unit refused to provide any help to the film'due south producers.^[ten] McCarthy also sought co-operation from The Pentagon; they also initially refused, as Patton'southward son, George Patton IV, was in the Army, and Patton'southward second girl, Ruth, was married to an officer. Past 1959, McCarthy had convinced the Army to co-operate.^{[11] [9]}

Twentieth Century Fox bought A Soldier'southward Story, the 1951 autobiography of General of the Ground forces Omar Bradley (who features prominently in the pic, played by Karl Malden). Francis Ford Coppola wrote the moving-picture show script in 1963 based largely on Ladislas Farago'south 1963 biography Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, and on A Soldier's Story.^{[ix] [eleven]} Edmund H. N was later on brought in to help work on the script.^[11] The film was originally to exist chosen Blood & Guts and William Wyler was originally scheduled to direct. Yet, Wyler quit before the planned starting date of January 1969.^[ix]

Bradley, the only surviving v-star general officer in the United States afterward the death of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969, served equally a consultant for the film though the extent of his influence and input into the last script is largely unknown. While Bradley knew Patton personally, it was also well known that the two men were polar opposites in personality, and at that place is bear witness to conclude that Bradley despised Patton, both personally and professionally.^{[12] [xiii]} As the film was made without admission to Full general Patton's diaries, it largely relied upon observations by Bradley and other military machine contemporaries when they attempted to reconstruct Patton'due south thoughts and motives.^[14] In a review of the film, Brigadier Full general S.L.A. Marshall, who knew both Patton and Bradley, stated, "The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture show of [a] comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon.... Patton in the flesh was an enigma. He so stays in the film.... Napoleon in one case said that the art of the general is not strategy only knowing how to mold human being nature.... Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say."^[14]

Filming [edit]

The picture started shooting February 3, 1969 and was shot at 70-i locations in six countries, by and large in Kingdom of spain, which had a lot of the U.S. Army's World State of war Ii surplus equipment.^{[11] [9]} 1 scene, which depicts Patton driving up to an ancient metropolis that is unsaid to be Carthage, was shot in the ancient Roman Mauretanian urban center of Volubilis, Morocco. The early scene, where Patton and Muhammed V are reviewing Moroccan troops including the Goumiers, was shot at the Majestic Palace in Rabat. One unannounced boxing scene was shot the nighttime earlier, which raised fears in the Royal Palace neighborhood of a putsch. One paratrooper was electrocuted in power lines, but none of this battle footage appears in the picture. The scene at the dedication of the welcome centre in Knutsford, Cheshire, England, was filmed at the bodily site. The scenes fix in Tunisia and Sicily were shot in Almeria in the south of Spain; Pamplona in the n was used for French republic and Germany; while the winter scenes in Belgium, including for the Battle of the Bulge sequence, were shot about Segovia (to which the production crew rushed when they were informed that snowfall had fallen).^{[15] [11] [9]} Interior shots were filmed in Seville.^[9]

The film was shot by cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp in 65 mm Dimension 150, but the second movie to be shot in that format afterwards The Bible: In the Get-go... (1966).^[ix]

A sizeable amount of boxing scene footage was left out of the concluding cut of Patton, but a use was soon constitute for it. Outtakes from Patton were used to provide boxing scenes in the made-for-TV picture show Fireball Forwards, which was first broadcast in 1972. The motion-picture show was produced by Patton producer Frank McCarthy and Edmund North wrote the screenplay. One of the cast members of Patton, Morgan Paull, appeared in this production.^[xvi]

Opening [edit]

The opening scene of the picture.

The motion-picture show opens with Scott's rendering of Patton'southward speech to the Tertiary Army, set against a huge American flag.^[17] Coppola and North had to tone down Patton'due south bodily words and statements in the scene, as well as throughout the rest of the motion-picture show, to avert an R rating; in the opening monologue, the word fornicating replaced fucking when he was criticizing The Sat Evening Post. Too, Scott'southward gravelly and scratchy vox is the opposite of Patton'due south high-pitched, nasal and somewhat squeaky voice, a point noted by historian S.50.A. Marshall.^[fourteen] Yet, Marshall also points out that the film contains "also much blasphemous and obscenity [past Patton]. Patton was not habitually foul-mouthed. He used dingy words when he idea they were needed to print."^[14]

When Scott learned that the spoken communication would open the film, he refused to do it, as he believed that it would overshadow the residual of his performance. Director Schaffner assured him that it would be shown at the end. The scene was shot in 1 afternoon at Sevilla Studios in Madrid, with the flag having been painted on the back of the stage wall.^[18]

All the medals and decorations shown on Patton's uniform in the monologue are replicas of those really awarded to Patton. Yet, the general never wore all of them in public and was in any case not a four-star full general at the time he made the famous speeches on which the opening is based. He wore them all on just 1 occasion, in his backyard in Virginia at the asking of his married woman, who wanted a picture of him with all his medals. The producers used a copy of this photo to aid recreate this "look" for the opening scene.^{[ citation needed ]}

Music [edit]

The critically acclaimed score for Patton was equanimous and conducted by the prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith used a number of innovative methods to tie the music to the moving-picture show, such every bit having an echoplex loop recorded sounds of "call to war" triplets played on the trumpet to musically represent General Patton's belief in reincarnation. The main theme likewise consisted of a symphonic march accompanied past a pipe organ to represent the militaristic notwithstanding securely religious nature of the protagonist.^[19] The music to Patton subsequently earned Goldsmith an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score and was one of the American Movie Institute's 250 nominees for the elevation twenty-five American film scores.^[twenty] The original soundtrack has been released three times on disc and once on LP: through Twentieth-Century Play a trick on Records in 1970, Tsunami Records in 1992, Film Score Monthly in 1999, and a ii-disc extended version through Intrada Records in 2010.^{[19] [21]}

2010 Intrada Records album [edit]

Disc One [edit]

Original Motion Picture show Soundtrack

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Patton Salute (Solo Bugle)"	0:44
2.	"Main Title"	3:08
3.	"The Battleground"	2:14
4.	"The Cemetery"	2:42
5.	"The First Boxing"	2:50
6.	"The Funeral"	1:54
7.	"The Hospital"	3:36
eight.	"The Prayer"	1:11
9.	"No Assignment"	2:23
10.	"Patton March"	1:53
11.	"Attack"	3:15
12.	"High german Accelerate"	2:32
13.	"An Eloquent Man"	1:43
14.	"The Payoff"	ii:26
15.	"A Change Of Weather"	one:23
xvi.	"Pensive Patton"	0:16
17.	"End Title"	two:20
18.	"Echoplex Session (bonus)"	five:29
Full length:		41:11

Disc Ii [edit]

Original 1970 Score Album

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Patton Speech (spoken by George C. Scott)"	4:54
2.	"Principal Championship"	2:17
3.	"The Battleground"	2:xix
4.	"The First Battle"	2:48
five.	"Attack"	3:xiv
6.	"The Funeral"	1:53
7.	"Winter March"	ane:55
8.	"Patton March"	two:04
9.	"No Assignment"	1:59
10.	"High german Advance"	2:31
11.	"The Infirmary"	3:xviii
12.	"The Payoff"	2:22
thirteen.	"End Title & Speech communication (spoken by George C. Scott)"	one:01
xiv.	"End Championship (sans dialogue) (bonus)"	one:11
Total length:		33:46

Release [edit]

The picture had its premiere on December 4, 1969 in New York City and on Wednesday, February four, 1970 it had a benefit premiere at the Benchmark Theatre in New York before its roadshow release starting the following day.^{[9] [22]}

First telecast [edit]

Patton was first telecast by ABC-Television set every bit a 3 hours-plus color film special on Sunday, November 19, 1972, only 2 years subsequently its theatrical release.^[23] That was highly unusual at the time, especially for a roadshow release which had played in theatres for many months. Most theatrical films at that time had to wait at to the lowest degree five years for their first telecast. Another unusual element of the telecast was that almost none of Patton's profanity-laced dialogue was cut (only two sentences, one of which contained no profanity, were cutting from the famous opening speech in front of the giant US flag). The picture show was the fourth highest-rated film broadcast on television receiver in the United States at the time, with a Nielsen rating of 38.5 and an audience share of 65%.^[23]

Home media [edit]

In 1977, Patton was amidst the first 50 VHS and Betamax releases from Magnetic Video. The film would be released on Laserdisc in 1981, too past Magnetic Video. A widescreen version was released in 1989, which includes four newsreels about the real Patton. A THX-certified Laserdisc would be released on July 9, 1997, trading the newsreels for many new features. A THX-certified widescreen VHS was also released in 1998 by the aforementioned benefactor, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Patton was first released on DVD in 1999, featuring a partial audio commentary by a Patton historian, and again in 2006, with a commentary past screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola and extra bonus features.

The film fabricated its Region A (locked) Blu-ray debut in 2008 to much criticism, for its excessive use of digital noise reduction on the picture show quality. In 2012, a remaster was released with much improved motion-picture show quality.^[24] In June 2013, Fox UK released the film on Region B Blu-ray only reverted to the 2008 transfer.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The film grossed an estimated $51,000 in its outset week.^[25] Co-ordinate to Fox records the film required $22,525,000 in theatrical rentals to break fifty-fifty and past xi December 1970 had made $27,650,000 and then made a profit to the studio.^[26] Eventually, it returned worldwide rentals of $45 million,^[2] including $28.ane million from the United States and Canada from a gross of $61.eight million.^{[27] [28]}

Critical response [edit]

Roger Ebert said of George C. Scott, "Information technology is one of those sublime performances in which the personalities of the actor and the graphic symbol are fulfilled in i another."^[29] Gene Siskel gave the film 3 stars out of four and wrote that George C. Scott "has created an interim tour de force," but plant information technology "repetitive – the second one-half doesn't tell united states of america anything more than the commencement."^[30] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "The about refreshing affair about 'Patton' is that here—I think for the first fourth dimension—the subject matter and the style of the epic war movie are perfectly matched ... Although the cast is big, the only performance of annotation is that of Scott, who is continuously entertaining and, occasionally, very appealing."^[31] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "'Patton' has, like Lawrence of Arabia, washed the near-impossible by creating a finely detailed portrait despite all the tuggings toward simplification which are inevitable in the big budget, long, loud roadshow product desperate to attract mass audiences. As Patton, George Scott gives one of the corking and unforgettable screen characterizations."^[32] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the picture "eventually shares the dramatic limitations, likewise as the visual triumphs, of Lawrence of Arabia: nonetheless another fascinating merely inconclusive portrait of a mercurial military machine leader. The camera focus is sharp, just the dramatic focus is blurred. We never quite sympathise Patton in historical context, in relation to the other generals of the menses, and to the entire Allied war endeavor."^[33] Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote that "technically the movie is awesomely impressive," but went on to state that "I'thousand sure it will be said that the moving-picture show is 'true' to Patton and to history, but I think information technology strings us forth and holds out on usa. If we don't just desire to take our prejudices greased, we'll find information technology confusing and unsatisfying, considering we aren't given plenty data to evaluate Patton's deportment."^[34] John Gillett of The Monthly Flick Bulletin wrote, "While communicating a relish for the man with all his warts, [Schaffner] also pinpoints the monstrous prejudices which lay beneath the surface. And, of form, he chose the correct actor. Karl Malden'southward Bradley is neatly observed and the German players are good, merely Scott'due south operation rightly dwarfs all the remainder."^[35]

Online movie critic James Berardinelli has chosen Patton his favorite film of all fourth dimension^[36] and "to this day one of Hollywood's nearly compelling biographical state of war pictures."^[37]

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein'due south volume The Final Days, it was also Richard Nixon'southward favorite moving picture. Nixon first viewed Patton with his family at a individual screening in the White House Family Theater on April 5, 1970. Nixon became obsessed with the motion-picture show, repeatedly watching it with Henry Kissinger over the next month. He screened it several times at the White Business firm and during a cruise on the presidential yacht USS Sequoia in the Potomac River. Kissinger sarcastically wrote of Nixon'south insistence that he come across the film on the cruise: "It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the motion picture no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the heart of it to set for the next twenty-four hours's NSC coming together."^[38] Earlier the 1972 Nixon visit to China, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai watched this moving-picture show in training for his meeting with Nixon.

Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 94% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 49 reviews, with an boilerplate score of eight.46/10. Rotten Tomatoes summarizes the critical consensus as, "George C. Scott's sympathetic, unflinching portrayal of the titular general in this sprawling epic is equally definitive as any operation in the history of American biopics."^[39]

Accolades [edit]

In 1971, the film was nominated for 10 University Awards at 1971 ceremony, winning seven awards (including Best Motion-picture show). George C. Scott also won the Academy Award for Best Histrion for his functioning, but he famously refused to accept it, citing a dislike of the voting process and the concept of acting competitions. (The flick's producer, Frank McCarthy, accepted the honour on Scott's behalf.) He was the first thespian to practice so.^{[40] [41] [42]}

The Best Picture statuette is on brandish at the George C. Marshall Museum at the Virginia Military Establish, courtesy of Frank McCarthy.

In 2006, the Writers Guild of America selected Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North's adapted screenplay as the 94th best screenplay of all time.

American Picture show Institute Lists

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #89
• AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
  • George S. Patton – #29 Hero

Sequel [edit]

A made-for-television receiver sequel, The Last Days of Patton, was produced in 1986. Scott reprised his title role. The film was based on Patton'south final weeks subsequently being mortally injured in a car accident, with flashbacks of Patton's life.

See as well [edit]

• Listing of American films of 1970

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Scarecrow Filmmakers Serial. Vol. 20. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 256. ISBN9780810842441.
2. ^ ^{a b} Solomon, Aubrey (2002). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Vol. 20. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 165. ISBN9780810842441.
3. ^ TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July v, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2006.
4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive. Archived from the original on August xiii, 2016. Retrieved August four, 2016.
5. ^ "Patton".
6. ^ Gussow, Mel (Apr 21, 1971). "'Patton' Entrada: It Took xix Years". The New York Times.
7. ^ Cornwell, Rupert (July 10, 2002). "Rod Steiger, 'heart-searching and volatile' Hollywood tough guy for more than than 50 years, dies aged 77". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2009.
8. ^ Gussow, Mel (April 21, 1971). "'Patton' Campaign: Information technology Took nineteen Years". The New York Times.
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10. ^ Travers, Steven (2014). The Knuckles, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne'due south Political Odyssey. Taylor Merchandise Publishing. OCLC 857277430.
11. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Why I Wanted To Portray Patton". Photoplay. July 1970. p. 24.
12. ^ D'Este, Carlo (1995). Patton: A Genius For State of war . New York: HarperCollins. pp. 466–467. ISBN0-06-016455-7.
13. ^ D'Este, Carlo (2002). Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life . New York: Henry Holt & Co. pp. 403–404. ISBN9780805056860.
14. ^ ^{a b c d} Marshall, S.Fifty.A. (March 21, 1970). "Great Georgie Redone". The Charleston Gazette. 4: 4.
15. ^ Mitchell, George J. "The Photography of "Patton"". in70mm.com. Archived from the original on January v, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
16. ^ "Fireball Forward - Rotten Tomatoes". Flixster, Inc. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved Nov 12, 2012.
17. ^ ≠°Travers, Steven. The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey."
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19. ^ ^{a b} Clemmensen, Christian. Patton Archived July eleven, 2011, at the Wayback Machine soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
20. ^ AFI's 100 Years Of Film Scores Archived 2011-07-sixteen at the Wayback Auto from the American Film Institute. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
21. ^ "Patton". Intrada Records. Archived from the original on Oct 21, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
22. ^ "'Patton' Opens Near-Capacity On B'w'y, 'Kremlin Letter' Lively, 'Glass' Glossy". Daily Variety. February 6, 1970. p. iii.
23. ^ ^{a b} "Hitting Movies on U.S. TV Since 1961". Variety. January 24, 1990. p. 160.
24. ^ Maxwell, Barrie (November 8, 2012). "Patton (Remastered)". The Digital $.25. Archived from the original on September 16, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
25. ^ "Force at Some N.Y. Situations; 'Patton' Spanky 51G; 'Zabriskie' OK Kickoff; 'Looking Glass,' In 2, Big". Variety. February 11, 1970. p. 9.
26. ^ Silverman, Stephen Thousand (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Flim-flam . Fifty. Stuart. p. 329. ISBN9780818404856.
27. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October xv, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M178.
28. ^ "Patton, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
29. ^ Roger Ebert (March 17, 2002). "Patton (1970)". rogerebert.com. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
30. ^ Siskel, Cistron (March 5, 1970). "Patton". Chicago Tribune. Department two, p. 11.
31. ^ Canby, Vincent (Feb 5, 1970). "The Screen: 'Patton: Salute to Insubordinate'". The New York Times. 33.
32. ^ Champlin, Charles (February fifteen, 1970). "'Patton' Features George C. Scott equally 'Old Claret and Guts'". Los Angeles Times. Agenda, p. 13.
33. ^ Arnold, Gary (March one, 1970). "Take Your Pick of War Heroes: General Patton". The Washington Post. F1-F2.
34. ^ Kael, Pauline (Jan 31, 1970). "The Electric current Movie theatre". The New Yorker. p. 73.
35. ^ Gillett, John (June 1970). "Patton: Animalism For Celebrity". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 37 (437): 123.
36. ^ "#1: Patton". reelviews.internet. Archived from the original on Dec 1, 2018. Retrieved July one, 2017.
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38. ^ Robenalt, James D. (2015). January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month that Changed America Forever. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61374-967-eight. OCLC 906705247.
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Further reading [edit]

• In 2005, Patton's wife'southward "Push button Box" manuscript was finally released past his family, with the posthumous release of Ruth Ellen Patton Totten's book, The Button Box: A Girl's Loving Memoir of Mrs. George Due south. Patton. Taylor, John Grand.; Taylor, Priscilla S. (July 23, 2005). "Gen. Patton's wife, a New York denizen". The Washington Times.
• Suid, Lawrence H. (2002). Guts & Celebrity: The Making of the American Military Paradigm in Picture show. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 260–278. ISBN9780813190181. Suid'southward volume contains an extended word of the product of Patton and of public and disquisitional response to the picture; the discussion occupies most of the affiliate, "13. John Wayne, The Green Berets, and Other Heroes".

External links [edit]

• Patton at IMDb
• Patton at AllMovie
• Patton at the TCM Motion-picture show Database
• Patton at the American Film Plant Catalog
• Patton at Box Office Mojo
• Patton at Rotten Tomatoes
• Patton at Metacritic

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