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The Last Days of Patton is a 1986 American made-for-television biographical drama film and sequel to the 1970 film Patton, portraying the last few months of the general's life. George C. Scott reprises the role of General George S. Patton , and Eva Marie Saint portrays Beatrice Patton, the general's wife.
Exam is a 2009 British psychological thriller film produced, written and directed by Stuart Hazeldine and starring Colin Salmon, Chris Carey, Jimi Mistry, Luke Mably, Gemma Chan, Chukwudi Iwuji, John Lloyd Fillingham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Adar Beck and Nathalie Cox.
Patton spent most of the next 12 days in spinal traction to decrease the pressure on his spine. All non-medical visitors were forbidden except his wife Beatrice, who had flown from the U.S. Patton had been told that he had no chance to ever again ride a horse or resume normal life, and he commented, "This is a hell of a way to die."
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. 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 Bradley's memoir, A Soldier's ...
Faragó was the author of Patton: Ordeal And Triumph, the acclaimed 1963 biography of George Patton, that formed the basis for the 1970 movie Patton and wrote The Broken Seal (1967), one of the books that formed the basis for the 1970 movie Tora!
By the time he made "The Last Days of Patton" sixteen years later, Scott had gained a considerable amount of weight. This seriously marred his believability, as Patton was always quite lean. On the whole, "The Last Days of Patton" is a good movie for those interested in World War II and the famous general, but it is a "snoozer" for most ...
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about the final year of World War II and the death of General George Patton, specifically whether it was an accident or an assassination.
According to many eyewitnesses, Patton actually said the British, the Americans, and the Russians would rule the world after the war, but the part about the Russians was left out of many newspaper accounts. Eisenhower did nearly send Patton back to the States after this incident.