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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543234692
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Running Time: 171 minutes
Sales Rank: 2964
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1970-09
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (Including Best Picture) Patton is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of it's Oscars went to George Patton the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and Flamboyant Patton designed his own uniforms sported ivory-handled six-shooters and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmanuevered Rommel in Africa and after D-Day led his troops in an unstoppable campaign across Europe. But he was rebellious as well insight and poignancy his own volatile personailty was one enemy he could never defeat.System Requirements:Running Time: 336 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 024543234692 Manufacturer No: 2233469
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Great War Movie! Great Biopic! Great DVD!
This is one of the very, very few great Hollywood movies about historical events and personalities in which hardly any liberties or revisionist history attempts have been made and yet the unadulterated "true" story is still so dramatic and exciting. This movie is fully deserving of all 8 of the Oscars that it won and is not only among the top 5 war movies that I've ever seen but is also among the top 5 biopics that I've ever seen.
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Rating: - Patton DVD
My tape of Patton finally couldn't cut it anymore. It just wore out. I bought the DVD and the picture on my new high def TV was great. I've seen the movie dozens of times and this is the best since the original on the movie screen. The companion DVD reviewing the original shooting of the film is great also. This is a very good package.
Rating: - You can't go wrong with Patton
Sure it may be a long movie, but it is one movie that will remain a favorite forever. The intricate details of Patton's (portrayed by George C Scott) career are incredible to learn about, since Patton was one of our most heroic (and interesting) generals from World War II. Furthermore, with the movie in Blu-Ray high definition, you couldn't ask for a more realistic viewing experience.
Rating: - Patton
Patton is one of the real good stories about World War II. It is really pretty accurate from everything I have read on the subject.
Rating: - Patton Classics
I purchased this one because i saw it on tv last year. to add to my library collection.
thank you.
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