Patton

Patton
by Franklin J. Schaffner

Patton
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Actor: Carey Loftin, George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Strong, Stephen Young
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
Producer: Frank Caffey
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Writer: Edmund H. North
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Ladislas Farago
Writer: Omar N. Bradley
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Patton

Movie Review: Quality
Summary: 3 Stars

Picture and sound quality were amazing. I loved the sound because the macrodynamics were right on - in other words, the explosions were really loud, and the dialog was not. This is how things sound in real life - none of this crap you see nowadays where the actors are passionately whispering to each other in the middle of a battle.
The movie sure did move along slowly, though. I thought it was a little boring.

Summary of Patton

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 man whose life was literally defined by war, and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C. Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis, and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J. Schaffner.

Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon

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