George C. Scott Is Magnificent.

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2013)

George C. Scott stars as General George Patton, legendary tank commander that traces his career through his North Africa campaign, the invasion of Germany, and finally commander of occupational forces in Germany. It also profiles his friend and colleague General Omar Bradley(Karl Malden, also superb) who tries in vain to influence Patton to not be so unforgiving to his own men(especially in memorable scene of him slapping an unhappy soldier, likely suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder, an undiagnosed condition at that time) and his rebellious nature toward authority(when he believes it to be wrong) which threatened his own command, and any political aspirations he may have had, which he claimed were none.
Superbly directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, intelligently scripted and impressively mounted battles is a textbook case on how to do a film biography. This ranks as one of the best.