Patton (1970)

Réalisateur : Franklin J. Schaffner

Scénaristes : Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North

Genres : Guerre, Drame, Histoire

170 minutes

Status : Released

Budget : 12 000 000 $

Langues : English, Pусский, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, العربية

Pays : United States of America

Société de production : 20th Century Fox

Synopsis

Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, la vie d'un général, rebelle dans l'armée américaine mais reconnu comme un génie de la stratégie. En 1943, le général Patton est envoyé à Tunis afin de reprendre une situation difficile, l'armée US ayant du mal à prendre le pas sur l'Africa Korps nazi. Il enchaîne les succès mais refuse de laisser les lauriers de sa victoire au maréchal Montgomery, des forces armées britanniques. Il est alors relevé de son commandement et va attendre plusieurs mois avant de se retrouver à la tête d'une division.

• George C. Scott - Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
• Stephen Young - Capt. Chester B. Hansen
• Frank Latimore - Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport
• Karl Michael Vogler - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
• Karl Malden - Gen. Omar N. Bradley
• Michael Strong - Brig. Gen. Hobart Carver
• Carey Loftin - General Bradley's driver
• Lawrence Dobkin - Colonel Gaston Bell
• Albert Dumortier - Moroccan minister
• Morgan Paull - Captain Richard N. Jenson
• Bill Hickman - General Patton's driver
• Pat Zurica - First Lieutenant Alexander Stiller
• James Edwards - Sergeant William George Meeks
• David Bauer - Lieutenant General Harry Buford
• John Barrie - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham
• Richard Münch - Colonel General Alfred Jodl
• Siegfried Rauch - Captain Oskar Steiger
• Michael Bates - Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
• Paul Stevens - Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Codman
• Gerald Flood - Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
• Jack Gwillim - General Sir Harold Alexander
• Edward Binns - Major General Walter Bedell Smith
• Peter Barkworth - Colonel John Welkin
• Lionel Murton - Third Army chaplain
• David Healy - Clergyman
• Sandy McPeak - Correspondent
• Douglas Wilmer - Major General Francis de Guingand
• John Doucette - Major General Lucian K. Truscott
• Tim Considine - Soldier Who Gets Slapped
• Abraxas Aaran - Willy
• Clint Ritchie - Tank Captain
• Alan MacNaughtan - British Briefing Officer
• Florencio Amarilla - Soldier (uncredited)
• Brandon Brady - Lieutenant Young (uncredited)
• Charles Dennis - Soldier (uncredited)
• Paul Frees - voice (uncredited)
• Dolores Judson - Knustford Welcome Club Dignitary (uncredited)
• Hellmut Lange - Major Dorian von Haarenwege (uncredited)
• Bruce Rhodewalt - Cynical Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
• Lowell Thomas - Himself - Movietone News Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Harry Towb - American GI Cook (uncredited)
• Billy Kearns - Officer Callagher (uncredited)
• Roger Browne - Soldier on Bridge (uncredited)
• Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque - Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Brad Harris - Sergeant in Bar (uncredited)
• Laurence Herder - Russian Translator (uncredited)
• Elizabeth Lax - Girl (uncredited)
• Edward Meeks - Medical Corps Major (uncredited)
• Dean Selmier - Soldier Sleeping on the Floor (uncredited)