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- Franklin J. Schaffner's "Patton" (1970), released at the height of the unpopular war in Vietnam, was described by many reviewers at the time as "really" an anti-war film. It was nothing of the kind.
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Franklin J. Schaffner's "Patton" (1970), released at the height of the unpopular war in Vietnam, was described by many reviewers at the time as "really" an anti-war film. It was nothing of the kind. It was a hard-line glorification of the military ethic, personified by a man whose flaws and eccentricities marginalized him in peacetime, but ...
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Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley , and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North , who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph ...
Apr 2, 1970 · With George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong. The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- 1970-04-02
Sep 6, 2022 · Released the same year as "Catch-22," the patchy adaptation of Joseph Heller's famous anti-war satire, Schaffner's film is nostalgic about old-fashioned warfare where two Generals would...
Jun 17, 2014 · Patton is neither pro nor anti-war, liberal nor conservative. It’s neither patriotic nor a send up of American exceptionalism.
Feb 25, 2019 · Throughout the decision-making process that April, beleaguered Nixon found time to repeatedly watch the war (or rather anti-war) film Patton, which premiered in February 1970, starring George...
Feb 22, 2015 Full Review Mark Johnson Awards Daily Patton remains one of the great war films for the fact that it can be conceived and both patriotic and anti-war in its delivery.
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- War, Biography, History, Drama
- PG