Patton (movie)

This article needs more sources for reliability. Please help improve this article by adding reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged or removed. Find sources: "Patton" movie – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Patton
Directed by	Franklin J. Schaffner
Written by	Biography (Patton: Ordeal and Triumph): Ladislas Farago Memoir (A Soldier's Story): Omar N. Bradley Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola Edmund H. North
Produced by	Frank Caffey Frank McCarthy
Starring	George C. Scott Karl Malden Michael Bates Karl Michael Vogler Siegfried Rauch
Cinematography	Fred J. Koenekamp, ASC
Edited by	Hugh S. Fowler
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date	February 4, 1970
Running time	170 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12,000,000
Box office	$61,749,765[1]

Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 movie about United States Army General George S. Patton, and his role in the Second World War. Patton starred George C. Scott in the title role, and it was released by 20th Century Fox. The movie became very popular, and won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1971. A sequel, The Last Days of Patton, appeared in 1986, also starring Scott.

1. ↑ "Allmovie Gross". Archived from the original on 2006-04-26. Retrieved 2008-07-13.