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Patton (1970)
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One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged at home and abroad, and many critics and moviegoers struggled to reconcile current events with the movie's glorification of Gen. George S. Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II. How could a movie so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a...
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Patton (1970) is the epic film about the heroic World War II field commander and military genius, George S. Patton, Jr. (1885 – 1945). Whether you like well developed biographies or war movies, most will enjoy this film.
The film opens with a speech that was inspired from the original speech General Patton delivered...
(complete Patton review by David Hurlbert)
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