John Chard
I love it. God help me I do love it so. I love it more than my life.
Patton is directed by Franklin J Schaffner and is adapted to screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North from Ladislas Farago's "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" and Omar N. Bradley's "A Soldier's Story". It stars George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Edward Binns, John Doucette, Stephen Young, Michael Strong and Cary Loftin. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Fred J. Koenekamp.
Pic is a part biography of George S. Patton Jr. which follows his exploits in WWII until his retirement from service.
Released at the time of the Vietnam War, there's a certain bravado in the makers choosing this period to release a biopic about one of America's...