Patton on TCM

My dad LOVED this film and bought an LP of the sound track. My brother and I would play it over and over, and memorized the opening speech to his troops, complete with all the profanity.

Good times.

Op- I think I read that GCS was tricked. He did not want that as the opening sequence, it was filmed with GCS thinking it would appear later in the movie. It's gotta be the best opening /introductions for any film!

long, loud, empty film

BTW can somebody tell Jackie Stewart that the head of Columbia Pictures was Harry Cohn, not Harry Cohen.....as she said during the Lost Horizon intro last week?

R3 Vietnam era propaganda film

My father’s favorite movie. I never watched it, doubt I ever will.

What did they ever do with that Oscar he refused? Is it available?

[quote]long, loud, empty film

Loud, empty head.

My hot, youngish U.S history teacher (also a football coach) made us watch this sophomore year.

Boring as shit. Nobody paid attention.

[Quote]Boring as shit. Nobody paid attention.

Agree. It's nearly 3 hours long and the only scene I remember is Patton slapping the soldier suffering from 'shell shock'

I don’t know anything about the production of the film but using the speech as the opening is brilliant - the kind of decision that would be more obvious during the editing of the film than in the script stage - it’s all in how the scene was designed and shot.

Here's the 'brilliant' opening

R11, I agree. It's arguably the greatest opening in film history.