Synopsis
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
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Cast
- George C. ScottGen. George S. Patton Jr.
- Stephen YoungCapt. Chester B. Hansen
- Frank LatimoreLieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport
- Karl Michael VoglerField Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Karl MaldenGen. Omar N. Bradley
- Michael StrongBrig. Gen. Hobart Carver
- Carey LoftinGeneral Bradley's driver
- Lawrence DobkinColonel Gaston Bell
- Albert DumortierMoroccan minister
- Morgan PaullCaptain Richard N. Jenson
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Tribune
The movie holds up far better than its detractors guessed - splendidly, in fact - not only thanks to Scott's spellbinding acting, but to the epic imagery, Coppola's (and Edmund North's) highly intelligent script and Schaffner's lucid, perfectly controlled direction. - 100
ReelViews
Patton remains to this day one of Hollywood's most compelling biographical war pictures. - 100
USA Today
Still mesmerizes on the strength of George C. Scott's chew-your-behind performance. [5 Nov. 1999, p.6E] - 100
Variety
War is hell, and Patton is one hell of a war picture, perhaps one of the most remarkable of its type ever made. - 90
The New York Times
A huge, initially ambivalent but finally adoring, Pop portrait of one of the most brilliant and outrageous American military figures of the last one hundred years. - 90
TV Guide Magazine
Patton is a war movie of unusual depth and a landmark in screen biographies. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Not a war film so much as the story of a personality who has found the right role to play. Scott's theatricality is electrifying. - 80
Chicago Reader
Patton's personality--conveyed with pointed theatrical flair by George C. Scott--is registered in rich tones of grandeur and megalomania, genius and petty sadism.
