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A top-budget roadshow picture, to be released by Twentieth Century-Fox in February of 1970, based on the World War II career of General George S. Patton, Jr. This picture stars George C. Scott and Karl Mauldin (Scott playing Patton and Mauldin playing General Omar N. Bradley).

The picture was directed by Franklin Schaffner and produced by Frank McCarthy.

“General Bradley himself acted as Senior Military Adviser, and we worked with him throughout the preparation of the final script.”

“I prepared the final script, using material contained in a script written by Francis Ford Coppola. (At no point did we actually work together.) The material is as follows:”

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