Dir: Franklin J Schaffner | Cast: George C Scott, Stephen Young, Karl Malden, Michael Strong | US Biopivc 1970
Patton was Richard Nixon’s favourite movie as well of winner of several Oscars including Best Picture.
Various liberties have been taken with historical facts – the producers baulked at Scott using the original Patton’s high-pitched voice, for example – and Montgomery is a caricature; while the film’s biggest irony has to be when Karl Malden congratulates Scott on his nose.
The final ignominy that almost ended Patton’s career when he was put on suspension for striking a shell-shocked soldier demonstrated that the individualism necessary in wartime rendered him unsuitable for command in peacetime.@RicardChatten
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