(end portion) "A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning - that all glory is fleeting.” Thanks again for bringing back good memories Calvin Boyd MD, Ob/Gyn and musician
Jerry Goldsmith was such a diverse composer. He did the music for Patton, Planet of the Apes, Rudy, Star Trek both for the TV shows and the movies. just amazing.
The Wind and the Lion, Legend, Capricorn One, The Blue Max, Rambo, The Secret of Nimh, Gremlins...He was the absolutely best composer in the music business
Don't forget Goldsmith's greatest, BLARING-LOUD epics: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Poltergeist, The Mummy and The Secret of Nimh - Goldsmith went INSANE on these wild scores. In the best way possible.
My Dad was a gunner by day and chief of the kitchen for the troops. He had many skills in meal preparation. He became a man at a young age to support his family with his three brothers. I’m so grateful for all his endurances. He never failed. Even just hours before his passing. Don’t worry, pumpkin! I will pull through. He didn’t! Advanced cancer took him!
The only thing that was off was the voice. Patton had a high pitched voice that could cut through the noise of battle like a knife through butter. An example is Michael Caine's command calls in the film "ZULU". FYI Caine was line dog grunt in Korea when the Chinese crossed the Yalu River.
OH Yes... In the book that the film was based on "Patton Ordeal and Triumph" the author Ladislas Farago. Noted that in Patton's diaries Patton was very worried, as a young officer, about how high and almost squeaky his voice was. George C Scott has a very deep gravely voice. So while Scott's performance was a masterpiece there was nothing you could do about the that voice. Now the matter of voice. There is a technique in the millitary for voice control to produce what is called a "Command Voice". Frank Herbert in the Sci Fi Classic DUNE took that to an almost mystical level. That said it is a real thing one can master. By pitching one's voice with just the right amount of intensity and at a pitch, usually a higher pitch, one can cut through the confusion of battle and your commands will be heard. Better yet, a proper "command voice" has such an impact on you that while you might disagree with the command your first instinct will be to obey it! Michael Cain in the Film "ZULU" demonstrates, wonderfully, how a good command voice sounds in the midst of the noise of battle. In many scenes where his stuff is OFF CAMERA the viewer can still clearly here his battle commands to his particular part of the battle. Mr. Cain was a combat soldier vet from the Korean War. He KNEW what that voice was supposed to sound like. In the Wehrmacht of World War II German Officers and Non Coms, using very high pitched commands, could drill their troops from as far as a quarter mile away. OH OH MAN I just found THIS, Compare this speech that Patton MADE with the Speech of George C Scott at the beginning of the film. It is kind of startling. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G9DpKDwCJcM.html@@MrDarkastar
War didn’t make him change. He was a soft spoken person, very willing to go the extra mile for anyone. It’s kinda funny that years later he had rented a locker room, butchering shop from an egg business owner that didn’t need all the building he purchased. Anyway, my Dad built a smokehouse outside too. Cured, smoked meats of all varieties. Including venison. A group from N.Y. came hunting around thanksgiving and bag Bucks. They couldn’t bring them back home. Asked around and found out, Bud could accommodate any cuts they wanted and he had a freezer until their return. They did and sometime later wrote an article on my Dad. It’s not like he was overwhelmed with business, but he had several occasions to work with people from out-of-state. His usual customers from the farms still brought in their cattle, pigs, chickens and my Fathers served them. A Master at his craft.
George Patton was one of the best Generals. Another great General was Robert E. Lee but historians are not willing to honor or celebrate him. He had real class.
My older brother who died at age 63 in 1990 of pancreatic cancer, told me that he served in the 3rd Army Corp under General Patton. My brother stormed the beach at Normandy at the ripe old age of 17. How about that??! R.I.P. Nick You'll always be remembered by me, a Vietnam Veteran!
Dios lo tenga en su santa gloria,orgullosa tiene que estar toda tu familia y agradecida la humanidad toda de que en ese momento haya habido valientes que ofrendaron su vida para defender los ideales más sublimes que hacen al ser humano.Gloria y honor también para aquellos que estuvieron en Vietnam.Saludos desde Asunción-Paraguay (South America)
As a Virginian who shed the cloak of the past and still vehemently defends our Commonwealth; this tune pleases this old Marine’s ear! Society aside, politics be damned- In OUR Commonwealth - It will ALWAYS be THUS ALWAYS TO TYRANTS! Semper Fi!
+Gina R Nominated 18 times......won just once. I'd say its possible he deserved a lot of wins lol. Love Story won in 1970. Never really paid attention to that music.
+Stephen Cogan didnt G Scott win the oscar but he didnt show up for it - as he didnt believe in the academy...okay just had to look it up...George C Scott stayed home on awards night and watched Hockey.
00Billy First guy to do it. He wasn't for the competition thing. A unique actor but I feel its not just for competition, it's a way to highlight to people that hey....you need to see this performance. It can stand up against almost any acting performance ever to me. He became Patton.
Does anybody even remember who wrote that miserable, repetitive score? It was Francis Lai--who got credit for rescoring works by Bach, Mozart, Franz Gruber, et al. Much like Marvin Hamlisch was rewarded by the Academy for stealing the work of Scott Joplin.
Aelia Cassia "Much like Marvin Hamlisch was rewarded by the Academy for stealing the work of Scott Joplin." I thought the same thing for 40 years, until I looked it up. Hamlisch din't steal Joplin's work. He never claimed it as his own. "Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation." He adapted Joplin's music. Everyone knew it was Joplin's music.
I studied military history for a while, and have much respect for all our vets, but I feel America had its finest General in George Patton. He was proved right on so many things.
Patton is the finest battlefield commander this country will ever see. Patton led troops from every level from platoon to army. He led the 2nd Armored Division ashore at North Africa. After a bitter battle with German troops Patton was placed in command of II Corps. He whipped the unit into shape and led them to victory across North Africa. He led 7th Army ashore at Sicily outflanking the Germans and liberating the island. He took command of 3rd Army and led them across France to the gates of Germany. When the allies were on the verge of defeat he led 35,000 men in the dead of winter, pulling them out of a winter battle, no rest, no resupply, no hot food, marched them 100 miles in the dead of winter over rough terrain and threw them against the German flank and snatched victory. It would be one hell of a change in world history to see how he would handled the Cold War such as Korea and Vietnam.
I would disagree. That title goes to Grant during the civil war. More broadly for Washington who although not a tactical genius was a strategic one that went to lay down the cornerstone for the USA as a nation. Patton was, like his arch-rival Monty a showman a good commander but not the greatest. Also, like many great generals, he was a little touched in the head.
@@simoncampbell-smith6745 Simon. I appreciate your opinion. However, even though lincoln apprecited Grant, he was a bonifide alcoholic and depressed. He did not tactically orchistrate Vicksburg and Cold Harbor very well and actually admitted his mistakes. He did learn from them and made reparations to turn the tide later. The Civil war is not my fort'e. I will still hold to Patton. Since I do not agree with everything Patton did I still hold him up because of his bold tenacity and strategies despite him being a little eccentric, somewhat narcissistic and a self professed primadona. Lol. Thank you for you insightful comment.
AS A FORMER U.S. MARINE AND VIETNAM VET...YOURS TK?ESTED IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATION FROM THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR!!! ONE THING I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT GOD-DAMN ATTACK WAS A GOD-DAMN FAILURE!!! THEY DIDN'T ANNIHILATE THE PACIFIC FLEET
In my life I have watched the movie some 50 times notably in full on Memorial Day in years past. As a kid it was one of several war films that really stood out because it personified a warrior.
I believe the march is called "The Generals", but I love the haunting trumpet echoing. My father was in Omar Bradley's army. He said everyone feared Patton. The movie is a masterpiece as is the soundtrack.
My Dad. Technical Sgt. Richard Reichard, served in Combat 1944 to.1945 in Italy. And the Philippines 1945. Your Dad and my Dad were heroes. You and I are from good stock.
Really captured Patton's admiration of history and constant references to Rome. The trumpets help visual roman legions marching across the plains of Europe.
Nice thought on trumpets. Along those lines, I've always believed the organ is to convey the devout, church-like view of war that Patton held. It's a brilliant touch, especially for those who've read a lot on Patton. That's exactly how he felt.
The Howze Report reflected that need in the 1960's. The Army languished in the 1950s with new toys, but little in the way of mobility tactics or logistics.
I worked with a semi-retired guy at an advertising agency back in the 1990s who served under Patton...he heard that famous speech twice and said the movie 's opening speech was exactly as Patton spoke it...he also made that famous march to relieve Bastogne.
I was sitting at a bar on Shelter Island in San Diego some years back. There was an older gentleman sitting next to me and we struck up a conversation. He turned out to be Omar Bradley's chief of staff. We talked for hours. I had just finished reading A Soldiers Life, and the conversation was absolutely fascinating, much of it about our strategy in the European theater, Churchill, the relationship between Bradley and Patton. I'll never forget it.
My dad was a tanker for most of his 30 year career. He came up through the M-48 series and into the M-60 series, finishing with the M-60A3. He was with the 3/63rd out of Augsburg Germany. The night before you'd hear Patton's theme song playing from the barracks and the motor pool lit up as crews readied their tanks. The next day they'd come down the strasse full-out on their way to the rail head. God I love armor.
*_“It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun... two thousand years ago; and I was here.”_*
Shortly after the war ended Patton was given temporary govornership in Bavaria. He had been allowing German citizens from the Russian sector to come over to his own (in direct violation of post war agreement). A Russian general from a Red Guard's unit came to Patton's office to complain and insist that it be stopped. Patton didn't answer him. Instead he pulled his 45 out of a drawer and slammed it on to his desk. He then addressed his first aide saying "Who let this god dammed Russian in here?". Addressing his 2nd aide he said "Alert the 5th, 6th and 11th divisions. Tell them we're moving north at dawn, and get this son of a bitch out of my office". The poor Russian left thinking he had started WW3. From then on all Russian complaints about Patton were sent directly to Eisenhower.
His time had passed with the end of the war. He should of been quickly sent home. Unlike MacArthur who was more political Patton wasn't suited in rebuilding. To keep him in Germany was a mistake made by Eisenhower and Marshall.
Patton: I want a prayer... A weather prayer. Third Army Chaplain: A weather prayer, sir? Patton: Yes... Let's see if we can't get God helping us with this thing. Third Army Chaplain: It'll take a pretty thick rug for that kind of prayer. Patton: I don't care if it takes a flying carpet. The next day is clear for air support so: Patton: Go find me that Chaplain!... He stands in good with the Lord, and I want to decorate him!
I don't care if it takes a flying carpet! I can assure you, that due to my intimate relations with the Almighty, if you write a good prayer, We'll have good weather.
Then came "Patton's Miracle". (Really the event has a name in the history books. ) Not ONE DAY. One FULL WEEK of the best flying weather XIXth tactical air command could have asked for.
The scene and music at 11:15 always tears me up. The monologue about the slave holding a golden crown and whispering in the conquerer's ear a warning that "all glory is fleeting."
my father was in third army and served with general patton,,he used to tell me war stories when i was a child,for some reason i was the only one he ever talked to about those years,,i was 9 years old when he died,,to bad he wasnt able to live long enough to see this movie.rip daddy.
Respect to your Father. My Grandfather fought in France... I wish I could hear his stories. As a thankful British person thanks to you and your Father. Love the USA
My father fought in Europe also. He was my dearest friend. He started teaching me how to fly when I was 4 years old and made me work with the mechanics in the hangars. He didn't live long enough to see me rise to the rank of Colonel, but he did see me serve in combat just as he had. We have a bond that leads to Heaven.
My father also served in the 3rd. He told me after a Fire fight, he heard a voice saying to him "Dam fine job there!" Dad turned around and saw Patton some 50' behind their position had watched the firefight while setting in a jeep. Dad said thank you sir. Said Patton nodded and then the jeep drove off. AJY
Reporter: "General, are those pearl handle pistols?" Patton: "Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore house carries pearl handled revolvers, these are ivory."
and yet, that pistol he pulls from his waste band in North Africa, and fires up Germany bombers with, was in fact Patton's very own Mother of Pearl handled .32 automatic pistol. That little this was as authentic as hell too.
@@andrewwinter7843 Hmmmm. But some were targeted for their religion, eh? And the Chinese were quickly invaded, and few wound up fighting the Japanese. By the way, why do you feel compelled to look at WWII casualties through a diversity lens? Oh, yes. This statement of yours is utter nonsense: "White People slaughtered each other on an industrial scale in order to establish which form of totalitarian government was able to slaughter human beings in the most efficiently."
My uncle was an MP in 3rd Army. I had two neighbors - one infantry and the other a tanker. Man, they all had stories to tell. My uncle had a picture of Patton pissing in a ditch with his Ivory handles revolvers. My neighbor said he asked a tanker if he was yellow because he stacked sand bags on his M4. He was larger than life. God I love him. I’m proud to be an American!
@Yuvaez Band of Brothers was TV, therefore ineligible. Platoon: Barber did not compose Adagio for Strings for Platoon, but it's inferior to Jerry, in any event. Zulu, great, but no cigar. This was Jerry's greatest score. Not the greatest war movie theme, though, that was Maurice Jarre's score for Lawrence of Arabia.
My family was stationed in Germany when this movie came out. This was at the height of the Vietnam War and most of the young GI's in the audience had already fought there, or were going there, and anti-war sentiment was high. When Scott gave Patton's speech about, "Make the other poor bastard die for his country" I thought they would boo. Instead, they cheered! I was surprised.
hope those cheering bastards got shot. stupid war, and you can all these damn medals if I could walk again. 1stbn, 3rd marines. silly ass patriotism for corporate profit etc.
Patton was the sharp point of American military power --- absolutely the right man for the job at hand, arrogant and messianic he knew without a doubt what to do and how to do it. Elmer Bernstein and Max Steiner are fairly decent movie music composers too.
Capt: "What are you doing down there, soldier?" Soldier: "Err, trying to get some sleep sir." Patton: "Well get back down there, son. You're the only SOB in this headquarters who knows what he's trying to do."
I recall reading where Patton said that when his 3rd Army crosses the German border he was going to 'piss' in the Rhine River. True to his word, Patton did.
"Where are you going, General?" "Berlin. I'm going to personally shoot that paper hanging song of a b!tch!"; So many unforgettable, badass lines in that movie.
My Father was in the US Army for 17 years & was in both 7th Army & 3rd Army. Master sgt., a damned good cook & proud to have served under Patton. Phillipines, Pearl Harbor, Torch, Sicily, D Day, Normandy, Bulge, German occupation in Bavaria where he married my Mother and Korea. RIP to both of them. Her first husband was in the Wehrmacht and was MIA in the invasion of Poland. On both sides of my family someone was in the military for over 800 years and we now start our 3rd century of residing in Pittsburgh, Pa. My Father’s relatives & mine are still there.
The greatest war movie and excellent music ! I have seen the movie atleast 25 times still I am fascinated by it, more so, of George C. Scott’s acting. That was a masterpiece !
In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North win Oscar - Best Original Screenplay for “Patton”. In 1973, Coppola would win Oscar - Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Godfather”.
+teller121 Apparently, attending school. I was their dance teacher on base, during summer. One daughter was a "spit-in image" of Patton. An experience I'll never forget.
As a free spirit myself, I was never understood the military regiment. On occasion my attitude almost had my husband written up. He sat me down and tried to explain the ramifications of my actions. I complied.
The genius of Goldsmith's score was that he climbed inside the mind of George S. Patton. In thte title music, the continuing trumpet triplets aroused Patton's belief in reincarnation. As he indicated later in the film, he recalled BEING THERE for the Roman-Carthaginian battle. As the music moves along, it becomes church organ music because Patton thought of war as a religous experience. As others have written, I agree.Jerry Goldsmith should have won the Oscar for Best Original Score in 1970 instead of that dreadful "Love Story."
The soundtrack from "Patton" was and is a superb movie score: greatly evocative of the movie's subject, content, themes, and the times in which it was set. Jerry Goldsmith excelled himself in composing, arranging, conducting, and producing it. One of the best movie soundtracks I have ever listened to.
TheAerovons That remark was a bit harsh, but I just didn't get the emotion others got when I watched it. It could of been that Ali MacGraw evoked no emotion for me as her skill at acting is nil IMO. I'll remove it as I seem to be one of the few to feel that way. Good day.
***** I'm not sure which remark you want to remove but you are correct, it was tough to figure out who was worse...Ali or Ryan. It was a rather cute and endearing (and short) little book (huge best seller). When I saw the movie at the theater it seemed pretty true to the book but ....yeah the casting was based on who was "hot" at the time. I will admit to feeling a lump in my throat when he crawled into the hospital bed with her. And literally the whole audience ...you could hear their stuffy noses lol. An exercise in self torture.....
Zer0dog I know Scott won best actor, which he refused to accept. That trophy sits in the armor museum at Ft KNos. But I didn't recall they won best picture.
You know a movie's outstanding when you just don't want it to end. "Patton" is one of those movies! I breaks my heart when he disppears in the shadows under the windmill at the end of the film. I want to yell: "Come back General! We still need you! Please don't leave us!" But of course, he had to. His time was up.
If you have watched the movie then you sort of get a feel of what he was like. He NEVER wanted to retreat or give the enemy a chance to get ready. And when the allies stopped him in the Loraine region, they might have just stopped the war from coming to an end sooner.
+Matt Brooks My Uncle Adam flew Patton to the tank battle locations after an engagement so Patton could look over the results first hand to evaluate both sides battle strategies good and bad. He saw a lot of death and destruction and to this day will not talk about it. His health is now failing him quickly but after the movie Patton was out I asked him if Patton was really like that, he said he was worse. The one and only story he told me, one morning after a big tank battle the day before they were in the ops shack planning his flight to the scene. My Uncle had an English Setter named Tarfu that always flew with him when he had no passenger. Patton arrived and his dog and my Uncles ran off to play (it had rained all night and the grass strip was all mud). When the flight plan was concluded Patton returned to his car to ride to the aircraft, whistled for his dog, the dog promptly jumped up in the car onto his lap covered in mud. Patton pulled both his pistols as he exited the car to shoot his dog. The driver (Patton's aid) had to grab the dog and run off to keep the severely agitated General from killing his dog. The man was as real as portrayed and more.
I would have loved to read Uncle Adams war memoirs, but I know that most servicemen couldn´t even talk about their war experiences, let alone write about them. I have read many memoirs and biographies, both allied and axis, including Pattons "War As I Knew It". We owe everything to those men of "The Greatest Generation".
+Matt Brooks I don't think you can really say the Allies "stopped" Patton in the Lorraine campaign. However, you can say that Ike didn't give Patton the highest priority to Patton's 3rd Army in terms of logistical support. Is that what you mean? Monty took the highest priority for the ill-advised Market-Garden campaign. It would have been better to give Patton highest priority, even though he was attacking into the center of the German Western Front!
Had Market Garden worked it would have knocked Germany out of the war by October of 1944. The problem wasn't Monty - it was ignoring the intelligence which showed an entire SS Panzer Division resting and refitting in the Arnhem area, then sending in 10,000 British Paras with light equipment, and no radios, that did for it. Still, the British Paras, cut off, no food, ammo, or heavy equipment held out for 9 days when they were supposed to hold out for 2 at most. 30 Corps. was stopped as the infantry hadn't arrived to support the last three miles to Arnhem - little beknowst to all allies, there were no German troops between them, and the Bridge. We could still have made it with a little more aggression. Thanks to 101st US Airborne for nighttime link up with British 1 Para and getting the 2000 survivors out.
General Patton broke the stalemate in North Africa. And, by being offensive, lead the defeat of Germany. Them boys did their duty. Nothing more can be asked of a man than to do his duty.
General patton was a hero and made a significant contribution to the allied victory in world war 2 but the germans were already in full retreat after losing at el alamein to the british.
It was the British under Montgomery who broke the Afrika Korps at El Alamein. Look it up. It was a clean-up operation after that. Not saying the British did it with superior military prowess; the Germans were heavily outnumbered by that time.
Though George C. Scott was in numerous movies, plays, TV shows, he will always be Patton to me, always. When he passed away, I could see George C. Scott greeted by General Patton and the general saying to him "You son * a **itch!" "Come join my men, they've been waiting for you too."
He will always be Patton to me also. But a close second for Scott characters is Gen. Buck Turgidson in "Dr. Strangelove"! In a way he was the prototype for Scott's Patton performance. :D
He should have been let charge the gates of Moscow to "personally shoot *that* paper-hanging son of a b!tch!" (meaning Stalin)! After that, Patton should have gone on to link up with McArthur by way of China, taking out Mao along the way and ending the Communist threat of world domination once and for all!
Patton one of the greatest generals of all time, great man, hero, he was very wronged, thank God Eisenhower liked him and kept him in WW2 till the very end! 🖤
Though Patton was kind of controversial person I cannot but admire him for what he did. Jerry Goldsmith's wonderful score does credit to the true American hero.
@@nstix2009xitsn Sure, next to contemporaries. MacArthur eventually would make noise about nuking China, took his elderly mother nearly everywhere with him in theater in WWII, and brokered the deal to let a great number of Japanese war criminals off the hook, including the imperial family; LeMay would first burn Japanese cities to the ground and then lead SAC and the USAF punctuated by eccentric tests of base security and boasts that third-world proxies could be bombed into pre-industrial ruin (and make a truly bizarre political bid, eventually); Halsey was basically Patton at sea in terms of unmitigated aggression against enemy forces and off-color rants; and so on. Patton wasn't really all that far out relative to many of his US military contemporaries, outside of his reincarnation bit. The rest of them were more successfully kept from mouthing off *in front* of reporters most of the time, is all. (Notably, LeMay would get *way* worse about that over a couple of decades.) Half of that war, Eisenhower and Nimitz (to a lesser extent) spent inordinate time and effort just babysitting their crazier peers like responsible older brothers left to wrangle of a bunch of hellion kids.
Goldsmith was so much more thoughtful a film scorer than a Williams, though. We have fewer good film scorers than film composers (if you follow my thinking).
Indeed, and for good reason. I like the line from the movie. "They will lose their fear of the Germans I hope to God they never lose their fear of me." I do not know if he actually said that.
+adrian hickman Very fair point, though Patton was probably the best Anglo-Allied general of the war, Zhukov may have been the best of the war on any side. Eminent Military Historian John Keegan argued it was von Manstein, but with due respects to Patton it probably comes down to Zhukov or Manstein. I think it's so close I wouldn't argue with either choice!
lmao. One of the few inane lines in the film. Patton was severely wounded in World War I leading a lot of men is a desperate battle. His conquest of Morocco from the Viche French was no walk in the park either. That battle against the Afrika Corps after the disaster at Kasserine Pass was certainly a high point. But not his first rodeo by any standard.
I am so excited! I went to a store that sells used vinyl albums and found this album. Original issue in excellent condition, for about $6.00! I love this sound track, as it has George C. Scott giving the speech at the beginning of the movie. Listening to your suite of this soundtrack made me want to search for the album, which I did! Thank you, Soundtrack Fred! 😀
What a holy music! - What a great compsiton! - What a great movie! - PATTON! - by the music of Jerry Goldsmith show us, how to take Patton by the musical way. Patton was a arrogant, but, anyway a genious leader. Not really a nemy, but a simular part against an excellent Fieldmarshall Rommel. - Anywa, this music is a kind of back to the roots of that historic situation. Patton - was the "John Wayne" inside of the us- german fighting theatre. But Rommel, was also a great military name, since today! - in that historic WW II. Patton winns taht game, - BUt! The U.S.A. and the Germans winns also by a front against some other enemys in the cold war - till 1990 !
Like a lot of geniuses, Patton was flawed as a human being but one hell of a commander, a man for his time. Monty was risk averse throughout most of his career - Arnhem being the exception and we all know how that ended. That said, after Normandy, Monty's army group faced the majority of German armour to permit Patton's break-out, and took terrible casualties in so doing.
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He was a great man and true believer. I'm a true believer, when I first got to Vietnam and moved to Saigon within 4 days I realized I had been here before and I had no fear of death. I was only twenty years old.
The German's weren't scared of Monty, or Omar Bradley, or even Eisenhower... The German Generals, from Rommel, Jodle, Kliest, even Gerd Von Runstedt and Hienze Guderian all said that Patton, was the best Allied Commander. That's enough for me...
+Kristopher “Ultra” Vires With all due respect, Kristopher, Monty's actions, fear, inactions got thousands of US Soldiers and Marines killed. Fact. I met his right-hand man on the USS Hornet last year, and though Danny raved about him, I sat with a Ret Adm, Ret Capts, and they all told me the same thing - they were THERE. Monty cost American lives. Patton WAS BRILLIANT and out gov took him out via he car accident.
+Nance Schmance Come on, let's be fair now... you should explain what you mean exactly by Monty's "fear' and "inactions." Monty was not as good an offensive general as Patton of course, but he was a good defensive commander (especially with Allied intel reading the German's mail, ha). In Normandy he did pull most of the elite German panzer formations to the British sector, helping assist the American "Cobra" breakout led by Patton. Market Garden was obviously ill-advised, is that what you mean? Lastly, what Marines are you talking about?? Almost all of the USMC was fighting in the Pacific!!
The Germans also had fear of the Russian General Georgy Zhukov who possessed a similar aggressive philosophy as Patton, once he had the men and material to get the job done.
Thanks for posting this music. I had the record as a kid. I started to listen to orchestra music after this. It opened my ears to things other than drums and guitars. A friend's older sister liked the march so much she had it as her exit music at her wedding.
If you read Patton's autobiography you will know that he believed in the offensive, and never relied on a defensive war. And if you get anything out of his autobiography, that Patton had used a policy of preventative maintenance on his tanks and other equipment.
Christopher Taylor Patton never wrote an autobiography. There are some biographies of him out there but very little is known of his personal life. His family was asked but refused to talk about his personal life which is why the movie concentrates so heavily on his military career. It's still one of my favorite movies.
If you would gratefully look up on your Dewey decimal system at your local library, you would probably find his book on the shelf entitled War As I Knew It. So please don't reply- simply look it up and read. You can read don't you?
+Christopher Taylor Though of course I have a very high regard for Patton as America's best general of WW2, Patton hardly fought in circumstances which would require the defensive! The Allies generally fought with overwhelming air, material, numerical and logistical superiority! Plus, by 1942 they were reading the German's mail! Put Patton in command of a smaller weaker force and even he would probably be forced to fight on the defensive as many a general has been forced to do! Clausewitz held that the defensive is the stronger form of warfare because it is what the weaker side resorts to, philosophically thinking. Of course there have been a few notable exceptions, such as Napoleon in 1814, R.E. Lee in 1862 (which led to Antietam) and 1863 (Gettysburg).
Sitting at my desk doing paperwork and listened to The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and now Patton's soundtracks. These are brilliant pieces of music in any form.
Like many high-ranking officers in the U.S. Army, Patton was difficult to live under. Read about Bidell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff - a genuine bastard to work for. His staff hated the sound of his footsteps coming down the stairs in the morning. And these were desk jockeys in North Africa!
Poet? Patton was many thing, but a poet wasn't one. He was a hard-charging tanker, who didn't play politics, didn't pull punches, and wasn't afraid to be a glaring asshole when needed. He was an opinionated loudmouth when he wasn't getting chastised by Bradley, Ike or MacArthur all the way from PTO(Pacific Theater of Operations). He was nobody's idea of a poet.
Mike Candella It's quite well-known that Patton wrote poetry -- you can even buy his collected poems on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Poems-General-George-Patton-Jr/dp/0889461627. The original poster was correct.
Jerry Goldsmith is the greatest film scorer of all-time IMO along with John Williams. Those trumpets "echoing the soul of antiquity" throughout the film are just pure genius.
When I was in college in the early 70s, I drove my roommates crazy playing this over and over. My favorite thing about the composition is the echoing trumpets throughout, and my favorite part is a segment starting at 5:08.