Patton details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Stephen Young, George C. Scott, Karl Malden |
| Director: | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners |
| Name | Discs | |
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Patton |
PG Feature | |
Patton - Bonus Disc |
PG Bonus |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 42 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 04 Jun 2001 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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The Passing of a True Warrior
By Columbia2 from Oxfordshire , 16 Jan 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Patton is not a war film, but a cameo of a great and problematical American general. Unlike commanders today who bomb civilian centers into the Stone Age, Patton counted honor, valor, and honesty among his warrior arsenal.
As the film admirably revealed, he was raised amidst wealth and privilege in order to set the example of an impeccable warrior who is disciplined, moral, generous in victory, honest to a fault, demanding of subordinates as of himself. His Achilles' heel was twofold: his temper and its fast track to his tongue, and the bad luck of being born in a slick political era. Patton was an anachronism in a time that would reward ruthlessness and Abu Ghraibs, and support lying presidents who made war so that their corporate friends could clean up. Patton wanted to sit down over a table of fine food and wine and talk late into the night with the German High Command about battles and tactics. For him, the war was over, but his masters didn't agree: a Cold War was revving up, driven by propaganda, demonizing and rhetoric.
Patton's agonizing process of realizing this comes across admirably in the film. Too bad it didn't go a little further and raise questions about his death just before he was to return to the United States. He fell in Germany not to an honorable bullet but to the duplicity that Shakespeare told us to always look for when power is in the offing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(23)Portrait of a meglomaniac
By Burnhamite (379 reviews) from BURNHAM , 08 Jan 2013A truly outstanding movie depicting the 'antics' of General George Patton, superbly played by George C Scott and supported by a large cast of other great actors. Patton was a meglomaniac. who for some reason at various stages of the war, was the right man in the right place. Well worth watching this really long movie- Was this review helpful to you?
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How old was Patton?
By oli74 (44 reviews) from olisykes74@gmail.com , 30 Aug 2011It's good to know that being crazy wasn't just a Nazi trate and that the Allies had some truely bonkers Generals aswell. I cannot believe that men like these where in charge during WWII, in this case though I'm glad. What a charasmatic man General Patton was and a brilliant preformance by Scott, it's hard to write about anything/anyone else as Scott stole the show.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Epic war film
By Stanley2105 (8 reviews) from Ipswich , 17 Jan 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
An epic war film with George C Scott being outstanding in what must be said is a perfect casting for the role. Full of American gung-ho with Montgomery and the British war effort get a bit of a bashing; but then again there may be some historical justification for this.
Plenty of action, most of which has a very 'modern' feel to it bearing in mind the films age, and overall offers a good understanding into this complex character.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good on many levels
By Mrmash (10 reviews) from London , 22 Sep 2010Great war movie, great hard man movie, superb lines, great story with an interesting character portrait. Any one who loves a no nonsense character will love Patton. You're never quite sure where the movie is going because of all the things it accomplishes but that's a good thing as it is successful on many diffrent levels. Would highly recommend it- Was this review helpful to you?
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Very good epic war movie
By a customer from Marlow, Bucks, England , 23 Mar 2010Patton is a very enjoyable war movie with the kind of epic scale and classic feel not seen in modern war efforts. The cinematography is bold and the war scenes have a haunting reality to them, relying on scale rather than quick editing and effects. George C. scott is excellent in the role of Patton, admirably capturing the light and dark sides of this intruiging historical figure. Although not in the same class as Citizen Kane or trying to capture the full scope of a life like Welles masterpiece, the film does share some of that movies qualities in capturing the scale and ambtition of a major personality. Patton was maybe one of the last examples of classic hollywood film and is suprisingly unrecognised in retrospectives of classic cinema. This is definitely one to reconsider or to discover for the first time- Was this review helpful to you?
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