George Scott won the Oscar for Best Actor and shocked the world by refusing to accept the award. He believes that the competition between actors is unfair and calls it the "Meat Parade." On the other hand, he has reservations about the controversial figure of Patton.
Producer Frank McCarthy is a retired brigadier general who served in General George C. Marshall in World War II. In order to make a film about Patton, he prepared for 20 years.
Rod Steiger, Lee Marvin, Robert Michelm, and Bart Landkas all refused to play the lead role.
John Wayne wanted to play the protagonist Patton, but was rejected by the producer.
Almost half of the budget is used to rent soldiers and equipment from the Spanish army.
It is said that this film is Nixon’s favorite film. Nixon’s Director of Communications, Herb Klein, said, “He has watched this movie several times and made comments. He admires Patton very much.”
Most of the lines in the opening speech were really quoted from George Button. But these words are not what he made in one speech, but a comprehensive version of his many speeches.
Some real war scenes were filmed by Luce Mayo, who later became the director. He was a field photographer in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II.
Although Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North acted as co-writers, they never worked together or even met each other until they collected their trophy.
George Scott felt that he did not fully grasp the character of the character Patton. He deeply apologized to Franklin Schaffani, because he did not fully realize the complexity of this character.
In the tank battlefield in the movie, Patton's army uses the outdated WW2 M-24 light (Chaffee) tank. However, the German military used the American M-60 Patton tank after the war. This seems to be a kind of irony to some extent, naming the M-60 "Barton"
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