What is Patton (movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{more sources}} {{Infobox Movie | name = Patton | image = | image_size = | caption = | director = [[Franklin J. Schaffner]] | producer = [[Frank Caffey]]<br />[[Frank McCarthy]] | writer = '''Biography (''Patton: Ordeal and Triumph'')''':<br />[[Ladislas Farago]]<br />'''Memoir (''A Soldier's Story'')''':<br />[[Omar N. Bradley]]<br />'''Screenplay''':<br />[[Francis Ford Coppola]]<br />[[Edmund H. North]] | narrator = | starring = [[George C. Scott]]<br />[[Karl Malden]]<br />[[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]]<br />[[Karl Michael Vogler]]<br>[[Siegfried Rauch]] | music = [[Jerry Goldsmith]] | cinematography = [[Fred J. Koenekamp]], ASC | editing = [[Hugh S. Fowler]] | distributor = [[Twentieth Century Fox]] Film Corporation | released = {{flagicon|USA}} February 4, [[1970 in movies|1970]] | runtime = 170 min | country = [[United States]] | language = English | budget = [[United States dollar|$]]12,000,000 | gross = $61,749,765<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:37460 |title=Allmovie Gross |accessdate=2008-07-13 |format= |work= |archive-date=2006-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426195934/http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg |url-status=dead }}</ref> }} '''''Patton''''' ([[United Kingdom|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 [[Popularity|popular]], and won an [[Academy Award]] for Best Picture in 1971. A [[sequel]], ''The Last Days of Patton'', appeared in 1986, also starring Scott. == Beginnings == Patton's [[widow]] was approached not long after her husband died (after an [[automobile]] accident), with an offer to make a [[Hollywood]] movie about Patton's life and career. His family did