*_“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.”_*
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)
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.
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!
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.
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!
Notice how this opening score for the movie starts quietly, gradually builds to a roaring crescendo that just makes you want to get out of your chair and salute something, then retreats to a quiet theme again. The absolute GENIUS of Jerry Goldsmith, the finest movie score writer of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Look on Wikipedia at the LONG list of his scores - movies you've seen many times but never thought about the music. Without it, movies would be dull and lifeless. Jerry made them shine.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. ruclips.net/video/G9DpKDwCJcM/видео.html@@MrDarkastar
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."
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.
(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
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.
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 !
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."
+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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
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! 😀
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."
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.
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.
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.
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 !
Outstanding Movie! I saw it when I was back in college in Boulder, Colorado with my friends and roommate from the William Village dorm. Never forgot how well made it was, but especially the soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. Maybe you remember the closing narrative by the character of Patton as played by George C. Scott. He said the following which accompanies the music that begins at about the 11:12 mark... “For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars-(continued)
I had occasion to share cocktails with the chief of staff for Omar Bradley. We talked for hours. He said many times that Patton was exactly as he was portrayed in the movie. Old blood and guts. And was a brilliant tactician.
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.
*_“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.”_*
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!
Third Army was an Army Command, Corp is a level below in task organization, Third Army wasnt involved in Operation Overlord. Activated in July
あなたの兄貴は英雄だ！
Thank you both for your service!
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)
Patton was in the Sicily landings?
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.
"A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week." Gen. George S. Patton
The opening scene with the death and destruction with the vultures was haunting to me at 10 years old and still is at 62.
My father was in the 3rd Army under Patton. He was a tanker with the 761st Tank Battalion.
Tough job, being a tanker.
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!
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.
That is why certain people wanted him out of the way. His bravery in voicing his beliefs was impeccable.
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!
So proud my dad and his 82nd ABN DIVN F Co, 505th P.I.R. defeated NAZIs,
Notice how this opening score for the movie starts quietly, gradually builds to a roaring crescendo that just makes you want to get out of your chair and salute something, then retreats to a quiet theme again. The absolute GENIUS of Jerry Goldsmith, the finest movie score writer of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Look on Wikipedia at the LONG list of his scores - movies you've seen many times but never thought about the music. Without it, movies would be dull and lifeless. Jerry made them shine.
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.
I've been working in Augsburg for the last two years: I'm on the former Messerschmitt factory at Haunstetter Str. Nice little town
As Cav we were more prone to playing "Garryowen"
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.
@@Cage2053K Easy company said they didn’t need rescuing
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
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.
and add Alien and The Ghost and the Darkness.
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
I especially love his score for Planet of the Apes!
Amazing!Love the French horn's.
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.
When ever I hear this theme I always think of George C. Scott. What an actor - what marvelous music!
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.
I envy you this, sir! What an amazing happenstance. Good for you!
I asked a colonel who served under Patton if George C. Scott's depiction of him was accurate. He answered, "That was 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.
@@andrewwinter7843 thnx but explain better the point , andrew!
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.
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If anyone would know Patton, Roosevelt Kennedy or even Reagan they would remember them in a movie too
@@andrewwinter7843 Thanks for posting that Patton speech. You're right. Scott did a fantastic job but the real voice was quite different.
This is such an epic movie but the man really was like that. Definitely a must watch and one of the best films ever made.
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."
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.
It doesn’t end. Patton and his soldiers are glorious and continue existing as men, who fought for the freedom of the world.
@@L_back You're right. Patton is an American folk hero for the ages and his Third Army is a military legend. That's as good as it gets!
(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
"..all *real* Americans LOVE the sting of battle.." - Patton
The real insight there are all the things he relates, when says "battle"
The trumpet part popped in my head today
One of the truly great "EPIC" war movies of all time! George C. Scott at his finest!
TRUE John!
He also played the EL DUCE! Man i have to admit when i was in the 5th grade i was nuts about Patton!
Born for the role😀
Sometimes an actor becomes the character he or she is playing?
Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, Ghandi…
Not only that but I heard after watching this movie Nixon decided to invade Cambodia just what I heard
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.
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 !
Try his biography by Carlo D'Este. Amazing.
I got to meet Goldsmith backstage in Nov. 1983. A happy memory and he signed my program!
Lucky!
Wow!
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."
Beautiful thought
Of all the generals in American Military History Patton is the only one with the best movie & musical score.
Plus Oscars.
He'd love it.
Goldsmith deserved an Oscar for this wonderful music.
+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.
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
That must have made him feel rather staunchly patriotic to be in the presence of a grand leader
My condolences.
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.
I agree! This kind of Music is the best for mundane paperwork! It makes the time fly!
Michael Hanley
Indeed it does! Thank you for your comment.
I hear Aaron Copland's influence in all these works.
Tom, Dick and Harry?
Tunnel King?...is that you?....
Timeless classic haunting inspiring get chills my God
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Actually, Goldsmith later remixed this with his MacArthur theme music to make a composite piece, "The Generals." This is just the Patton part.
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.
Especially the Germans!!!!!!!!
Probably Jerry's greatest score, he knew when to have music in a scene and when not to, the use of an echoplex to loop the trumpets was genius.
Yes re: echoplex
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.
Goldsmith > Williams, hands down -- especially as a film *scorer*. No contest in my book.
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!
"Brave men die but once but cowards die many deaths." William Sheakspear
One of my all time movies to watch..They don`t make movies like this any more. Great story and great sound score.
Take that opening speech, and replace "Nazi" and "Hun" with "Islamic Terrorists" and watch the soy-boy SJWs run for cover.
The echo effects at the beginning are awesome
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.
patrick bleichner I WOULD HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE STANDING RIGHT THERE TO SEE THAT.
It also would have been difficult for me to no SMILE...!!!!!
we need a new patton
We will not see his like again....God bless him!
Imagine the suffering that could have been spared if hes been allowed to invade Moscow
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.
"I can attack with three divisions in fourty-eight hours."
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.
And he did just that in 48 hours.
I can attack with four
Cause George could do it.
My Uncle Verlin (Bow) was in one of the Tanks in one of those 3 division's. 508 Tank Destroyer
One of the great scores by one of the great composers.
My father served under Patton. He demanded much. However, he seemed to know clearly who his troops were and their capacities.
This is the best military movie music every made, From start to finish!
Jerry Goldsmith was a fantastic composer. The best of his craft in the 20th century!
@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.
The best war movie ever!
A great actor reincarned a great undeated general...
I still use it for motivation
This music is so damn epic. So was the movie. So was the man🇺🇸
Absolutely one of the greatest war movies of all time and the music is fantastic !!!!!
Goldsmith, you magnificient bastard, I LISTENED TO YOUR MUUUUSIC!!
He never knew when to keep his mouth shut and was about as tactful as an earthquake but my God was he a great general...
Now who in power in the United States is like that today? :)
Yeah, but at least Patton had a MIND.....
Makes this old geezer feel young again.
Know how you feel, fellow geezer....
11:25 mark..
"A slave held a golden crown and whispered into his ear 'that all glory is fleeting'"
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”.
Only because it is..,
Sic transit gloria mundi
THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN MY LIFETIME
Should have given him 10 Academy Awards.
My Uncle was in Payton’s 3rd Army and absolutely loved the man ! This is the last movie I saw before going to Vietnam ! I still love it.
I had the honor of teaching his Granddaughters dance while my husband was stationed in Furth/Nuremburg (1970) Germany.
+Carol Baker amazing. btw, what were his granddaughters doing in Germany in 1970?
+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.
Patton's son made Major General (two star) himself.
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.
tenuous
Well my dad took me to see this... Always remember that music.
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.
Beautiful statement.
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."
Surprising ,
robert dutrieux
"Sir i just got word from ike he said to remind you not to take Palermo"
"Ask him if he wants me to give it back"-patton
Sounds like Trump does today, God Bless him!
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.
Thank you mum and dad for sitting me down in front of so many films, they passed on to me a sense I think is hard to pass to another generation
Much respect to this movie and the actors, from Africa with love
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.
Olli Lehtonen
"Kind of"?
@@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.
Beautiful soundtrack!
My heart swells with pride when I hear this music I year up everytie
R.I.P. Jerry Goldsmith!
I am a Marine Corps veteran , but I've always had a lot of respect for Patton.
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.
A magnificent anachronism.
Today all thoughts are with the very few that live and those that did not 70 years ago on the beaches of Normandy.
"Rommel's out there somewhere waiting for me." "Yes sir."
Crazy to think this lost out to "Love Story" at the Academy Awards. Crazy.
Hey I actually PAID to buy a ticket to see what all the fuss was about way back then lol
Yikes....everyone in the audience was crying.
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.....
Just like how Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love... >:(
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.
Yes, with the Exception of John Williams, there are no great film composers that are alive and still actively working, Goldsmith was one of the greats
Yes, indeed!
Hans Zimmer is great, but Goldsmith and Williams are untouchable, along with Ennio Morricone.
Randy Newman.
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).
Love the music. The movie is one of my all-time favorites.
Great composer. Rest in pace.Great interpretation of George G. Scott. Thanks for the video.
Tout simplement MAGNIFIQUE. De plus le discours du Général dans le film peut entrer dans les légendes.... Un grand homme.
Love that Jerry called back to this in his score for _The 'Burbs_ 🇺🇸 🙌 🎼
My uncle Kenneth Westcott landed on D-Day plus 2 and served the the Third Army to the end.
Like the rest of the Third army, I bet your uncle didn't like Patton either.
Good man!😊God rest his soul in peace😢
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.
As a 30+ Year U S Army Veteran I carried that “”Weather”” prayer with me for Decades......And I read it to a number of my soldiers too
@@bclaverenz1 Very Cool
@@bclaverenz1 It was a great prayer!
I once knew a veteran of the Third Army. He always said, as did many, that Patton was "our blood, his guts". If you have to fight a war, do it right.
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!
Thanks very much great soundtrack I just watched the movie a week ago still great.
"I don't want to hear that we're holding the line.
We ain't holding shit! We attack! We push forward!"
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! 😀
"ALL GLORY IS FLEETING"
One of my favourite soundtracks
Reporter: "General, are those pearl handle pistols?"
Patton: "Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore house carries pearl handled revolvers, these are ivory."
Rock On !
Jeff Lebowski at lest it was a gun
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.
Andrew WinterIt wasn't a suicide, either. It was a war. A war cannot be a "suicide."
@@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 grandfather was with him in Hammelberg and Belgium. He always had that covert Scorpio side underneath it all when he played Chess.
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.
FREAKING MAD RESPECT to your friend's older sister!
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.
2:47 "All my life I've wanted to lead a lot of men in a desperate battle. Now I'm going to do it."
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.
A truly great movie theme.
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 !
John Wayne was no great man
Outstanding Movie! I saw it when I was back in college in Boulder, Colorado with my friends and roommate from the William Village dorm. Never forgot how well made it was, but especially the soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. Maybe you remember the closing narrative by the character of Patton as played by George C. Scott. He said the following which accompanies the music that begins at about the 11:12 mark...
“For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars-(continued)
Simply outstanding music.
There is something very moving about the echoing horns in this score .
I had occasion to share cocktails with the chief of staff for Omar Bradley. We talked for hours. He said many times that Patton was exactly as he was portrayed in the movie. Old blood and guts. And was a brilliant tactician.
Patton was often screened in the Nixon Whitehouse as a morale builder.
Would to God we had a hundred like him today.
Nicely mixed, as always,Fred! So many thanks for this! Jerry's love of the music will be immortal....for now
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.