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Francis Ford Coppola wrote the film script in 1963 based largely on Ladislas Farago s 1963 biography Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, and on A Soldiers Story. 6 8 Edmund H. North was later brought in to help work on the script. 8 The film was originally to be called Blood Guts and William Wyler was originally scheduled to direct. 6.

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It stars George C.

Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley.

Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H.

North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Bradleys memoir, A Soldiers Story.

The opening monologue, delivered by George C.

Scott as General Patton with an enormous American flag behind him, remains an iconic and often quoted image in film.

In 2003, Patton was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

Upon his arrival, he immediately starts enforcing discipline among his troops.

At a meeting with Air Marshal Coningham of the Royal Air Force, he claims that the American defeat was caused by lack of air cover.

Coningham promises Patton that he will see no more German aircraft but seconds later the compound is strafed by them.

Patton is bitterly disappointed to learn that Erwin Rommel, commander of the German-Italian Panzer Army, was on medical leave, but Codman suggests that: If youve defeated Rommels plan, youve defeated Rommel.

Pattons proposal to land his Seventh Army in the northwest of the island with Montgomery in the southeast (therefore potentially trapping the German and Italian forces in a pincer movement ) initially impresses their superior General Alexander, but General Eisenhower rejects it in favor of Montgomerys more cautious plan, which places Pattons army in the southeast, covering Montgomerys flank.

While the landing is successful, the Allied forces become bogged down, causing Patton to defy orders and advance northwest to Palermo, and then to the port of Messina in the northeast, narrowly beating Montgomery to the prize, although several thousand German and Italian troops are able to flee the island.

Patton insists that his feud with Montgomery is due to the latters determination to monopolize the war glory.

However, Pattons actions do not sit well with his subordinates Bradley and Lucian Truscott.

Calling him a coward, Patton slaps the soldier and even threatens to shoot him, before demanding his immediate return to the front line.

By Eisenhowers order, Patton is relieved of command and required to apologize to the soldier, to others present, and to his entire command.

As a further punishment, he is also sidelined during the D-Day landings in 1944, being placed in command of the decoy phantom First United States Army Group in southeast England which also makes the decoy army more convincing, as German General Alfred Jodl is convinced that Patton will lead the invasion of Europe.

He performs brilliantly by rapidly advancing through France, but his tanks are brought to a standstill when they run out of fuel as, much to his fury, the supplies were allocated to Montgomerys Operation Market Garden.

Later, during the Battle of the Bulge, Patton leads a successful relief effort to the town of Bastogne, then continuing through the Siegfried Line and into Germany.

After Germany capitulates, Patton directly insults the Soviet general Mikhail Katukov at a dinner who insults Patton right back, much to Pattons amusement.

Patton then makes an offhand remark comparing the Nazi Party to American political parties.

Ultimately, Pattons outspokenness loses him his command once again, though he is kept on to see to the rebuilding of Germany, where a runaway oxcart narrowly misses him.

Pattons voice is heard relating that a returning hero of ancient Rome was honored with a triumph, a victory parade in which a slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: That all glory.

Edmund H. North was later brought in to help work on the script.

The film was originally to be called Blood Guts and William Wyler was originally scheduled to direct.

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