Patton (3/5) Movie CLIP - Rommel, You Magnificent Bastard (1970) HD

[@natanl1567]

Ahh Patton. In another life I think we could've been friends.

[@1legomaster]

Abraham Lincoln President Lincoln?! What are you doing here??

[@NotSaddamHussein]

Yeah, you got a problem with us, legomaster?

[@1legomaster]

Saddam Hussein Saddam you too? I thought you guys were dead?

[@rayjr62]

In a previous life, you WERE friends, Erwin. You were friends.

[@Nick_Hammer]

fun fact: the sons of rommel, patton and monty were all good friends after the war.

[@Drownedinblood]

Ironic that Patton the General is destroying U.S. Patton tanks painted to look like German tanks.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

+Ulfbert so rommel painted patton's tanks to have him destroy his own army? he really is a magnificent bastard!!

[@Drownedinblood]

HASEnoncorperated It's the props. U.S. M48 patton tanks are painted and used as German tanks for the movie because there are few German tanks left after WWII.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Ulfbert yes i know this, but reality is only sometimes funny.

[@Wisdomisgood448]

+Ulfbert Literally almost ALL German tanks were destroyed during the war. As of today there is only ONE Working Tiger tank in the entire world.

[@Drownedinblood]

Kirk R. I'm a bit surprised. I would think there would have been some Panzer IV's left at least.

[@vote4carp]

When he says "I read your BOOK!", the small full-energy shake he does, it slays me every time.

[@hankkingsley2976]

He nailed this role

[@International_Corn]

Ma books arent finished man

[@cindymaceda2999]

One of the most memorable lines in a film that I can remember & I am 70 now.

[@indyracingnut]

Just so anyone who's confused.....One man calling another a magnificent bastard means they just gained our total respect despite the fact we hate their guts.....

[@Markunator]

indyracingnut - There are no "Khazarian Jews", you evil antisemite.

[@GardEngebretsen]

Of course there are Khazarian Jews, what are you even talking about? Khazarian Jews are the Jews that hail from Khazaria, where the Khan converted to Judaism from Tengri in hopes to appease both his Muslim and Orthodox neighbors. Following his conversion a lot of his population converted too. Khazarian Jews are jews that ethnically hail from Khazaria. I think you need to reeducate yourself about what antisemitism is.

[@Markunator]

GardEngebretsen There are no Khazarian Jews. The "Khazar hypothesis" for Ashkenazi Jews is an utterly unsubstantiated myth. "Antisemitism" is "Jew-hatred". I don't need to educate myself, I already know.

[@BlitzOfTheReich]

most of the population didn't really convert to Judaism though. It was limited to nobles and it wasn't the origin of the azkhenazi. Maybe mountain Jews of the north caucasus are related though.

[@1958Shemp]

Patton didn't "hate" Rommel or the Germans in particular -- they were the ENEMY to be vanquished. He made himself "hate" them the way you have to "hate" whom you fight/shoot at. But he respected good soldiering and intelligence. One can respect someone without "liking" them. Rommel was no dummy and Patton knew it.

[@ironvader502]

Ah, those times, when you could just paint a Cross on a M48, call it Tiger and no one cared... Edit: The amount of people that dont understand sarcasm and think this is serious 5 years later continue to amaze me

[@bachoftankswotblitz8679]

Yep, it was a damn Patton in German skin

[@leftcoaster67]

How much money would you have in 1970 to build a few dozen Shermans and Panzer III and IV's? They filmed in Spain with what they had. Have some appreciation they did what they could.

[@brianmac3903]

I'll take inaccurate real tanks over accurate CGI tanks any day of the week

[@jacobwilliams8515]

I know right.

[@claydodson7541]

oh god no

[@RocKnight11]

"If you put the letter "S" in front of HitIer, you have my opinion of him." -George S Patton

[@sopmodtew8399]

@a green parrot SHitler...

[@helmaksi]

George SPat on

[@calfropingrunsandtips3830]

LMFAO

[@carkid266]

Shitler🤣 Genius!

[@amritraj41]

Stone cold said that about Hitman.

[@NONO-oy1cu]

"You magnificent bastar I've read your book!" Gets me everytime

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

As Rommel's book was about infantry tactics, and the German force at el Guettar was commanded by von Arnim, perhaps George C. Scott should have read something more relevant?

[@jebbroham1776]

@@dovetonsturdee7033 But Patton THOUGHT that he was fighting Rommel, when in fact he wasn't even in North Africa at the time.

[@TheEvilChipmunk]

@@jebbroham1776 To barrow a quote from Harrison Ford: "It's not that kind of movie, kid..."

[@Robert_Douglass]

@@jebbroham1776 I think, if I'm correct, that Patton later learned that Rommel wasn't in North Africa because the Führer kept him in Germany, and he had the flu or something. Patton was livid when he found that out, because he believed that Rommel had done a dishonourable thing by not facing Patton in the field.

[@geoseward]

The Allies had broken the enigma machine's code and knew exactly when the Germans were going to attack at El Guettar which means Patton didn't really have to read the book or not.

[@MistahFox]

Ah yes, the infamous German heavy tank, the M48 Patton.

[@OleLeik]

Presumably the Spanish army did not have panzers for rent in their armoury in 1970. Things could have been worse for old Rommel. The British side got assigned the only tank type rolling around on the set which was actually used in World War II, the 18 tonn M24 light tank.

[@karljensen]

Years later after World War II, (West) Germany would get a batch of M48's from the United States.

[@Hellmiko702]

They did have some of our m48s . But ,not in Africa campaign

[@MistahFox]

@@Hellmiko702 Lmao yeah, in 1952 not 1942

[@dangrabske3238]

After Germany surrendered most of the german tanks were melted back down for scrap

[@jawadad802]

** no german tanks were hurt while making this movie...

[@farelhigam5785]

Yea cuz they are using a God dang Patton

[@kdrapertrucker]

Most of the " tiger" tanks used in modern movies are actually old Soviet tanks that are modified to look like tigers. I met a guy in a truck stop in Peru Indiana that was hauling one of these replicas he owned it and he rented it out the movie companies for war films

[@amberrayner8169]

In fact, there were NO German tanks

[@Bobbytomface]

@@kdrapertrucker saving private ryan

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

JEEZ I WONDER WHY!?

[@sgauden02]

I wish Rommel and Patton had gotten to meet one another.

[@SuomenJaakaripataljoona]

That will be fun to see

[@GeneralissimoJiang]

sgauden02 Maybe in heaven mate.

[@bushwhakked]

Their egos would've clashed.

[@jayw19]

Interesting enough, their sons both met each other and actually became good friends near the last years of their lives. Even though their fathers never met face to face, their families did in a different way. Luckily in a not so bloody way.

[@fritzman6483]

Robert Lee Woah there edge boi

[@blazemacarthur3555]

Why is Patton fighting _Pattons?_

[@nastynate4916]

Blaze MacArthur I thoat was a funny coincidence too

[@nastynate4916]

Blaze MacArthur I see a lot of these 70s ww2 movies use m48s and m47s

[@nastynate4916]

*thought

[@nemo5335]

Because you can probably count the number of running WW2 era Panzers on one hand. They could have gotten enough Shermans for the US side, but I suspect what they used was a hell of a lot cheaper. Even the Shermans wouldn't have been correct for this scene, as IIRC the US was still mostly using the M3 at the time.

[@nastynate4916]

hulk hogan especially because m48 patrons and m41 bulldogs were the tanks that were easiest to find in the 70s

[@colinmaguire3273]

My favorite historically accurate WW2 tank matchup, Rommel commanding M48 Pattons, and Patton commanding M41 Walker Bulldogs

[@ttwilli6330]

Ich bin 68 Jahre als ich jung war ,war ein Arbeitskollege bei Rommel und erzählte von Afrika ....dabei ;-))) war kein M48 Tank ,den sah ich als Kind bei den US Manövern in Bayern.

[@ttwilli6330]

by the way .: a really good movie ? Grüße aus Germany

[@Rimasta1]

I heard they used M41's and M47's for the American Army in the film. The thing is those two tanks look really similar.

[@AndrewGivens]

@@Rimasta1 The 41s only have five road wheel pairs per side and have a longer turret bustle with hard angles - the 47's a lot curvier in the turret department - built models of them both and learned their curves and angles well. Both quite handsome Cold War tanks, in their particular way. If you like huge drivetrains, chunky turrets and muzzle brakes anyway.

[@SAOProductions1955]

OK. So where do you think they might have been able to pick up some good used Panzer III's & IV's and also Maltilda's and M3's Lee/Grant/Stuarts, to satisfy your attention for historical authenticity? Your snarky-ness is intolerable.

[@yourlocalt72]

my army never had pattons

[@rommel_3404]

True very true mien commdant

[@dovahkiin4131]

*mein Kommandant*

[@GhostofRhurValley]

You wish your army had Pattons then your Afrika Korps might have reached the Suez canal.

[@yourlocalt72]

GhostOfRhurValley 1945 thats what i tought

[@ajasio2344]

Your an imposter.....

[@_Matsimus_]

The M60's........so many M60's........

[@Klaus_Klavier]

M48s, m60 had a gun mounted in cupola

[@emborg3145]

AGGGGHHHHH WHY ARE THERE IRON CROSSES ON THEM OH GOD OH GEEZ

[@letrantantaile7018]

Matsimus idk how german own m60 in 1944

[@leadxpoison9281]

Kind of hard for them to come up with that many Panzers...

[@kingofhogwarts9499]

@@Klaus_Klavier they also had a different turret. And chassis. And gun.

[@djartyom924]

Fun fact Rommel actually used enemy tanks to protect himself in the front lines when commanding and to not thin out his other tank divisions

[@yuripetrov2838]

His personal vehicle was a captured British armoured car

[@rcgunner7086]

I'm not surprised. That loon nearly got himself caught by the Brits on a number of occasions. One time he got away because he used a British truck as his command vehicle, so he just looked like another British prime movers puttering around the desert. LOL!

[@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger]

@@rcgunner7086 Sneak 100

[@geordi5054]

@@rcgunner7086 But it worked, and for the longest time the British got their asses handed to them over there.

[@Trebor74]

@@geordi5054 forgetting that Germany was reading American consulate traffic and knowing exactly what was planned

[@gadget850]

Rommel wrote a book on infantry tactics from World War I.He never finished his book on tank tactics.

[@dwemerlord6002]

Tanks are infantry.

[@gadget850]

@@dwemerlord6002 Go find a tanker and tell him that. There are tankers and there are crunchies.

[@assgrabber5473]

@@dwemerlord6002 I will destroy you if you ever say tanks are infantry again(I'm a tanker)

[@ElkaPME]

We can all agree that both are army, ye

[@lambertearnhardt68]

Patton finished it for him....

[@jellyfish3333]

As Patton, George C. Scott gave one of the greatest cinematic performances of all time in one of the top films of all time! This was just one of many classic scenes in the film, but probably my favorite as it captured Patton's intensity, genius, and ego all at once!

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Scott sounded nothing like Patton.

[@davidpeters5117]

Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola

[@gretchennelson7056]

Yes. He was magnificent.

[@jorgefiguerola1239]

So I heard it described ever since it came out in 1970. But over the years viewing after viewing Patton is just a vehicle for Scott to show off. So much of it seemed quality-wise sloppy and inconsistent. Considering the advances in realism why is there no blood and bodies flying into the air like mannequins or dummies? Ridiculous. Poor graphics, too.

[@deadponic117]

when he says i read your book, in a previous scene, he was asleep reading a book written by rommel, and Scott played this character probably better than any other actor could, he had the right amount of charisma and bravado.

[@Henners1991]

Didn't the real Patton have a high-pitched voice and sound nowhere near as masculine?

[@deadponic117]

@@Henners1991 yep, that's why George c. Scott was cast and it's one of the only inaccuracies of the movie

[@johnkilcullen]

@@Henners1991 I had read that too but there is a clip somewhere on KZbin of Patton making a speech after the war and his voice didn't sound particularly high pitched - though not a gravelly as George C Scott's voice.

[@MCO18]

Best line of the movie.

[@blakeaustin5817]

best line in any movie

[@RRSchwab]

+john walker (bvbarmykid1996) I agree - a great line. IMO: The best line in Patton is as follows (which also shows the genius of George C Scott, as an actor): "Imagine, an entire world at war and me left out it! God will not permit this! I must be allowed to fulfill my destiny .................. His Will be Done"

[@octaviancaesarhibernicus4447]

+Rod S that was the line I came looking for,can't find it without gett the full film,dwi.

[@cloroxbleach5826]

Max Power I agree

[@SmileyMissHappy]

u good bastard

[@lordchancellorhatton1910]

Rommel and Patton playing a little chess.

[@hawkiesquad]

yeahhahshahhashshshah

[@FischerFilmStudio]

I feel bad for those poor bastards playing the pawns...

[@ThePunchOfJustice]

they like playing company of heroes 2 together

[@TheVillaAston]

They never opposed each other in battle.

[@shoukatsukai]

Patton starts by playing e4, Rommel responds with e5. Patton plays d4, Center Game. Rommel TAKES on d4. Danish Gambit. (Extremely aggressive stance in chess for black pieces)

[@Fedakeen]

For those complaining about the types of tanks depicted in this scene, just think about the cost of buying a tank and then consider how much more expensive it would be to purchase tanks that were rarer. A lot of German tanks were destroyed and they were replaced with tank destroyers rather than similar models.

[@bellgrand]

Seriously. At least these are real tanks. Today we just get copy-pasted CGI crap.

[@OroborusFMA]

Ironically there were actually some still operational German Panzer IVs on the Arab side in the 1973 war with Israel. They didn't do too well.

[@voivodvlad1]

​@@OroborusFMA against up-gunned Israeli Sherman's sporting 105mm cannons they couldn't hope to.

[@haydengalloway5177]

they could have used CGI then

[@amazingmazur6752]

I just feel bad for all of the Germans they had to kill for the sake of realism.

[@wayfaerer320]

My great uncle was there in Tunisia with the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 18th Regiment. Just a couple days before this battle depicted here, he was wounded by shrapnel from a German 88 which resulted in compound fractures of his left arm and lacerations of his left chest - he died the next day. He was 24 years old.

[@TheRampagingGallowglass75]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🙏

[@richinoable]

Within living memory. It's important to realize how close we remain to that story. Shoot, we're still feeling the effects of the historic "Spanish" flu and WW1

[@andrewroots]

What was his name?

[@wayfaerer320]

@@andrewroots Richard Halvey.

[@wayfaerer320]

@@golfermanjim5622 That means a lot to hear that - thank you for taking the time to read about him. I hope we never forget all of those who never came home.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

This is what Saving Private Ryan would have looked like if it was made in the 1970s.

[@Keen3]

oooooookay, guy. Take 'er easy.

[@goldenshark3182]

LinkMarioSamus That film was already made, it's called "The Longest Day" and it came out in 1962, long before Saving Private Ryan.

[@bluemarshall6180]

Chad Crawford But no ryan. Only Richard borton High on Morphine.

[@bluemarshall6180]

LinkMarioSamus What????? No way.

[@sageantone7291]

Or if it was a good movie.

[@derek8676]

1:41 when the neighbor gets ready for her nightly shower

[@Miketheman926]

Speaking from experience hmmmm

[@blackegret666]

Okay, I gotta be honest that was clever.

[@vonner]

That's some different kind of 'explosions' going on right there...

[@chu8139]

The only difference is that you're holding your binoculars with one hand.

[@bassinbillRC5300]

@@chu8139 LOL!!!

[@QFizzle1992]

Lol M41 Walker Bulldogs fighting "Nazi" M48 Pattons...

[@Mure_nos]

Well, they did use real military units as extras.

[@vandelayofficial492]

Well yeah, all the German tanks broke down on the way to the set.

[@Scoffslaphead72]

Its well known that rommel used lots of captured enemy equipment, the germans had a very hard time getting tanks to africa.

[@demolition4654]

+ScoffSlaphead72 But not M48 Pattons in 1943.

[@paymo14]

you got a problem with that?

[@alejandrobasaldua5930]

Germany: Rommel. Russia: Zhukov. USA: Patton. Britain: Montgomery. Japan: Yamamoto. Italy: Lasagna. France: Whiteflag.

[@mastick5106]

@@markharrison2544 - Actually, no, he didn't. He admired the SS _troops_ and considered them "the real fighting men" among the Germans (reportedly, he wanted to train captured SS troops to fight against the Russians), but he had no such admiration for the concentration camps, the "horrible things" found in them or the "abominable experiments" that were carried out (quotes are his words from his autobiography). Patton was a warrior, and he admired fellow warriors, not mere butchers of men.

[@mastick5106]

I've seen that claimed. But while it's easy to find quotes from Patton showing his anti-semitism, when it comes to the claim _you're_ making all of a sudden there are no quotes anywhere, just this bald assertion which doesn't jibe with other documented things he said about the concentration camps. Which makes me highly suspicious of the assertion. Until I see it _in his words,_ I'm not buying it.

[@markharrison2544]

@@mastick5106 Read the warfare history article. Patton was fired because of his statements on Jews and the Holocaust.

[@strikerdelta]

@@markharrison2544 Patton was never fired he died from complications arising from a car accident.

[@markharrison2544]

@@strikerdelta He was fired in September 1945.

[@nomadbrad6391]

One of the TOP 5 acting performances in Motion Picture History. PERIOD.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

But George C Scott win the best actor in Oscars refuse to win from his career

[@subasurf]

You have got to be kidding

[@PNolandS]

I love how Patton is fighting against Pattons. I seriously do appreciate them going to the extra effort to put Tiger muzzle breaks on the M48s.

[@imperium8610]

Well there weren't many original German tanks left after WW2, since the third Reich produced the least amount among the other nations. So Hollywood 'had' to improvise with cold war era US tanks and just paint iron crosses and dessert camo on them when making these kind of films.

[@inouelenhatduy]

+Pom Pom actualy there are still alot of german tank been used after ww2 but it in eastern europe country + syria ( russian capture ton of pz4,stug and sell them to the syrian , capture panther used by romanian hungarian vv ) vv

[@imperium8610]

+inoue jerry let me rephrase. There are still a lot of WW2 German tanks left but not as many as allied or Russian. I'm just saying if they were hell bent on using original German tanks from WW2 for the film, then it'd be very difficult since as you said countries like Syria and Romania had these tanks sold to their armies shortly after the war, as well as put into museums long after.

[@ericpeterson6568]

They could have taken the time to Vismod them. Kelly's heroes was made at the same time as this and their tigers are far superior in appearance. Also Syria was still using old Panzer IIIs and IVs. They probably coul;d have borrowed a few STUGIIIs from them too.

[@Curtissaviation]

@@ericpeterson6568. Costs. More expensive to get those tanks than just film in Spain, where there were still lots of German lineage planes and equipment. The tanks used here were out of necessity rather than choice.

[@panzerwolf494]

@@ericpeterson6568 Heh, making three Tigers made the film hugely expensive. For the amount of armor needed in this film, holy smokes the studio would have gone bankrupt

[@GianiTheGamerAndHistorian7064]

I love when George C. Scott screams 1:54 😂

[@gretchennelson7056]

He was just SO freaking good in this movie it just defies description. One of my all time favorite actors.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Scott sounded nothing like Patton.

[@gretchennelson7056]

@@JamesRichards-mj9kw So what?

[@DomWeasel]

@@gretchennelson7056 So, pretty much the entire depiction of Patton in this film is a farce.

[@karlmoore9422]

Soldier: "He's smiling and reminiscing about Sunday book club and were all dying wtf ?!?!?!"

[@wildebras5592]

Our Guts His Glory

[@mikepowell8611]

My Grandpa F***ing hated Patton. His older brother died under him.

[@jacksonpettit4690]

Hi died just like his soldiers stop complaining like little girls

[@TheBarber5550]

@@jacksonpettit4690 wtf do you mean? He died like 6 months after the war ended. He did NOT die like his soldiers.

[@jacksonpettit4690]

@@TheBarber5550 Bro if you want an argument this ain’t the place. I was referring him to advancing into Berlin before a Russian truck rammed his Jeep killing him instantly

[@Mrfrenchy6883]

Romel: writes book Patton: reads it just before the Africa campaign Romel: watching Patton be his forces beating his with his own to tactics Romel: deja vue?

[@peterson7082]

The book in question was written after WW1 and was about infantry tactics and evolution of doctrine for infantry.

[@ashleycroydon9743]

Romel: You weren’t supposed to do that.

[@Baked-Potayto]

It's acknowledged later on in the movie that Rommel had actually already left the country and Patton was fighting some no name general. Patton then gets pissed off because he was robbed of his glory.

[@swaghauler8334]

@@Baked-Potayto I'm American but I must admit that the German after-action report was kind of accurate too. The German commander states: "We ran out of ammunition before the Americans ran out of tanks. From then on, the battle was lost." As sadly as it is to say, that's how the Allies won the Battle of The Hedgerows in France too. Tank crews would get their tank shot up and just go and get another one from the rear areas. It was the same with 2 1/2 Ton trucks. For every "Duece & a Half" the Germans destroyed, two more took its place.

[@hassetjifrebro8222]

swaghauler Being in defence usually means you have an about 3 to 1 kill to losses ratio. This isn’t specific to the Germans and is something they get too much credit for. Their tanks were over complicated, often broke down, too expensive and far too few. The Sherman was a beast that doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Fought on all fronts. Remained a formidable opponent up until late war, which was fixed by the British putting in a big dicc energy gun on it. And it was the most survivable tank of the war.

[@Jiggleton]

My parents knew the patton family who professed that Scott played him uncannily well.

[@DS-wk1kn]

The real Patton had a high-pitched voice.

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

@@DS-wk1kn Yeah Scott's voice was nothing like Patton's - still an incredible performace.

[@vermontgadfly]

I saw this movie when I was a teenager. I loved his scene and Patton's line. Thirty years later, I found Rommel's Book (Infantry Attack) and read the same. Looking at the scene again and remembering what I read, Patton's line makes absolutely no sense. Rommel's book was about indirect attacks, exploiting weaknesses, movement, avoiding frontal assaults, and not wasting resources on hopeless lines of approach. The scene is an example of exactly the opposite. Assuming Patton read his book, that attack would have been the last thing he would have had in mind coming into the fight.Nevertheless, it was a really good movie.

[@barthoving2053]

This is depicting the battle of El Guettar where the 10th Panzer Division attacked to disrupt an American build up. And the Americans countered the German panzers tactics for the first time. The remark also might not be interpreted literally but figuratively meaning Patton could predict and counter Rommel. As in the saying 'reading someone like a book'. Of course Rommel was not present in North Africa during the exact time of this battle but Patton might not have known it.

[@iAMgamingKnight]

@@barthoving2053 Rommel did over see alot of the African campaign, although indirectly. But this was a scene in a movie that they didn't accurately portray unfortunately reflecting history. Rommels subordinates followed his tactics to the letter, which is what made him the legend that he was. It would have been nice to see it accurately portrayed, but that's asking alot from a movie considering what all would have needed to be involved.

[@roncollins1046]

The point being, when a potentially superior opposing force possessing mobile superiority and state-of-the-art machinery has literally written the book on how he conducts his operations, a guy facing him would do well to read it. Please, this picture above most others is pageantry, not history.

[@NyuuMikuru1]

Are you talking about Rommel’s movement or Patton’s movement?

[@ericb4127]

In this movie Patton should have been referring to Hanz Guderian not Rommel.

[@SirPeterKozlov]

Ah yes, the M48 Rommel. One of Germany's finest.

[@tillman40]

Mark Felton may have identified these as tanks that Germany captured and repainted 😎

[@robg4147]

Those 2 men at 00:18 walking right in front of a moving tank scares me.

[@deandrepowell7115]

all of the explosions did it for me

[@carsinbrasil1983]

On another scene, the tank hits some actor back/sholder, and pass over him, but not with the treadmill. They said the actor, really got hurt, and the scene was totally dangerous, but he allowed to show on the movie.

[@puggetnuggets4415]

Rommel was using Patton’s, too bad there isn’t a Rommel tank that Patton could’ve used

[@owlsayssouth]

Germans kept naming their tanks after cats.

[@kgkomrin]

@@owlsayssouth tigers, panthers, elephants, rats, mouse, leopards, germans love their animals

[@agentzitronenbaum1331]

@@kgkomrin cuz mustache guy love's animal

[@pacificostudios]

I watched this with headphones and now I'm in awe of the sound-design. It's all in stereo, check it out. War is hell, but the audio is sure impressive.

[@pacificostudios]

@Goushtinkla Van Goh - Glad I could help.

[@TheMoni700]

Patton is amazing. One of my favorite WW2 movies. He loved the sting of battle.

[@MichaelJW72]

I think Eisenhower's biggest challenge was managing the personalities of guys like Montgomery, Patton, and DeGaulle.

[@terpfen]

Eisenhower had an ego bigger than any of them.

[@bumpermanthesecond615]

Patton looking down on the battlefield as if it was a giant chessboard is purely amazing

[@bourbon2605]

you shouldn't fear the enemy who disrespects you. *you should fear the one who respects you.*

[@Grahf0]

0:41 I'd like to take a moment to point out the clear shockwave moving across the ground from one of the special effects explosions as the American tanks advance. I can only imagine what it must have been like to be an extra or a person working as a film crew member during this scene.

[@spasjt]

Must have been awesome!

[@markforward9370]

best line in the movie

[@pockenface62]

Rommel and Patton - two genuine gentlemen who should have played cards together.

[@markforster6457]

And Montgomery wouldn't have been invited.

[@Ugh-Fudge_Bwana]

Kelly's Heroes, a comedy war heist movie from 1970, used actual WW2 tanks in its scenes. Patton, a historical biopic from the same year, used Cold War tanks. What?

[@coreybenson3122]

the famous tigers from the movies were actually dressed up T-34's. There's only one drivable Tiger currently in the world.

[@Ugh-Fudge_Bwana]

corey benson I mean, the T-34 is still a WW2 tank. I wasn't wrong.

[@veljkostevanovic7597]

+Ugh-Fudge Bwana Kelly's Heroes was filmed in communist Yugoslavia that received a lot of surplus Shermans from the US in early 1950s because it fell out with Stalin in 1948 . It kept them in reserve until the 70s along with the T-34s received from USSR before the falling out. T-34s in the end proved more lasting, some having been reconditioned and used in the Yugoslav Wars of the early 90s.

[@inouelenhatduy]

+Veljko Stevanovic they only fall out with stalin but after stalin die yugo get agian weapon from soviet but yhea yugo are pretty smart play nice with both side and get weapon from both side + yugo aslo recive m18,m36 from the us and aslo used german weapon and made german weapon :)

[@KenWheelerWhistler]

Yeah, wasn't that the one Tiger that was used in the movie Fury?

[@kenc9236]

I remember staying up till 2am as a kid to watch this movie. Awesome movie.

[@LPJack02]

RIP George C. Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999), aged 71 You will always be remembered as a legend.

[@jonathanoconnor9546]

Watch George C Scott starring in The Flim Flam Man, and also the "black comedy" The Hospital ( co starring Diana Rigg)

[@casonhoughton9505]

My grandfather fought in Patton’s army. This movie is great!

[@casonhoughton9505]

@Attila Wilhelm Liubei what do you mean

[@kefengyuan3278]

Hero respect hero.

[@jacktattis]

Rommel never went up against Rommel Not in Tunisia Tripoli or even Italy Rommel had gone back to Germany . Over in France Patton only landed there in August 44 Rommel was dead in October and in that two months Rommel would not have even worried about Patton. He WAS worried about what Monty was up to.

[@toshkonya1419]

Rommel didn't write the book on German tank warfare - it was written by General Heinz Guderian.

[@glenchapman3899]

He is referring to the book on small unit tactics Rommel did write

[@UmbrellaWatch]

ahhh the old over the hill airplane blow up trick

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

Patton admired Rommel for the genius tactician that he was. Didn’t make what Rommel fought for any less wrong, but the man was truly brilliant when it came to conducting war.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Patton was right - we "fought the wrong enemy".

[@FieldMarshalYT]

Rommel is overrated, but still a good general IMO.

[@ramal5708]

1:48 when your high school team won against rival high school in a football match

[@nrs6956]

Scott you are sorely missed. Thank you for the memories.

[@RayPierreWhit607]

My grandfather commanded a tank platoon in the 3rd Army. Saw Patton once. On a road in mountainous country with hairpin turns and warnings about speed. Said he heard a Jeep up the hill that sounded like it was really moving. It rounded a corner in front of him and Patton was hitting his driver’s helmet with his riding crop yelling “faster goddamit.” Disappeared down the road and that was his Patton story.

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

When I hear Mr Scott’s voice I can imagine some intermittent cartoonish throaty lizard vocal/screeches. “JOANNA! HAVE YA BEEN DIGGIN HOLES OUT HERE AGAIN??”

[@Amar7605]

0:54 Watching the plane crash like an unfazed boss.

[@Amar7605]

1:29 Best tank kill ever!

[@alcd6333]

Great biography on a very complex man. One great scene after another; this one's among the best!

[@BigLebowski324]

Same comment about the tanks over…and over…and over. No originality was found here. 😂

[@steveford8999]

BTW, GEN Patton, in several of the bios about him I've read, had a HUGE collection of military history and commentary. Of COURSE he had Rommel's book (Infantry Attacks or Infanterie greift an). It was from the mid-1930s.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Patton never fought Rommel.

[@bomjus1706]

homies in the comments really expected a hollywood movie to be able to field a couple dozen authentic WW2 tanks when that many functional WW2 german tanks don't even exist anymore lol

[@JayAyers]

This is my go to line when I finally solve a problem (work, school, gaming, etc.)!

[@aceofspadesguy4913]

I will always admire practical special effects over CG.

[@MeinGoobbyXI]

Accurate Representation of Roblox Armored Patrol

[@toyman9642]

They used the tanks they had. Look at Top Gun. The Russian planes are F5's.

[@betsydierlam561]

They are actually T-38 Talons

[@audeobellicus]

@@betsydierlam561 No, they were U.S. Navy F-5E/F’s used in real life as the navy’s Aggressor Squadrons for combat training. Simply painted over to be the fictitious MiG-28’s.

[@mrcool2107]

Lol jet planes weren't invented during ww2

[@betsydierlam561]

@@mrcool2107 when did any of us mention ww2? Also the German me 262 was a jet plane and it existed during ww2

[@titanjakob1056]

Bruh I always get ticked when I see that scene with the t-38s and they call them migs lol

[@averagejoe7860]

i just love that shot of him smiling 1:41

[@hangten1904]

No CGI in sight.

[@blakeb106]

Who gives a crap if they are incorrect tanks. They had a budget and the fact that they were able to make a battle like this is incredible. Patton is far mar accurate than the majority of history movies. It’s just equipment, get over it.

[@nrw64]

We Germans love him still. The "Erwin Rommel Kaserne" is the best exampel.

[@commanderrockwell1123]

F.B.I. It’s a shame he was never truly loyal.

[@sugarbxnny741]

Erwin was a legend

[@beepIL]

If you are German why are you using F.B.I shouldn't it be S.A or something?

[@nrw64]

@@beepIL because I can 🙂 actually my name should be "Bundesnachrichten Dienst" , Because I'm German and that's our secret service. The sa was a political split of the nsdap.

[@nrw64]

@@commanderrockwell1123 He was loyal. He just didn't want Germany to go to the dogs by a schizophrenic paranoid idiot.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

The number of people commenting on the accuracy of the tanks but missing the larger point that Rommel and Patton never actually faced each other on the battlefield is...interesting. Inaccuracies aside, fantastic movie that gets a surprising amount of the history right. General Bradley was actually a consultant on the film.

[@azimuth361]

In the documentary series, Great Tank Battles, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster tells a story of a captured Iraqi tanker sitting in an American Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The Bradley crew had taped a photo of General Field Marshall Irwin Rommel inside the crew compartment. The Iraqi asked, "Why do you have a photo of your adversary inside your vehicle?" The American Soldier said, "If you had studied Rommel, then you wouldn't be sitting in the back of my vehicle."

[@vincentcushnahan5292]

Excellent ❤

[@ReaverLordTonus]

When you think about it, that would mean Rommel's downfall was his vanity, he wrote books on his tactics so they would be recognized for their genius and in turn his reputation as a strategist would also be renowned, why else would one publish them? Because he shared his secrets, it would only take a mind as sharp as his to devise countermeasures and so make his brilliant tactics all but useless.

[@Baked-Potayto]

Not quite. Later in the movie it's revealed that Rommel had already left the country prior to the battle and that Patton was actually fighting some random German general. Patton flips out because he feels cheated out of his glory. Patton and Rommel never ended up fighting against each other during the war.

[@edzaslow]

Patton never went head-to-head with Rommel in North africa. Rommel had left the theater of North Africa before Patton arrived.

[@starguard4122]

This may be a bit of a shock to most of you, but Gen Patton and Gen Rommel never went head to head a any time during the war

[@dbeaton1111]

That scene was in the movie. Patton was intensely disappointed when he found out that Rommel wasn't in Africa during the battle, but his aide reminded him that the German battle plan was still Rommel's.

[@daniel-johnlavaly4770]

Patton never met Romel in battle. By the time Patton got to North Africa,Rommel had been recalled.

[@markharrison2544]

Patton didn't do anything in North Africa.

[@duncancallum]

@John Cornell SO TRUE JOHN.

[@harrywakatipu2547]

John Cornell Montgomery only kept beating him because Hitler denied Rommel a retreat.

[@sirilluminarthevaliant2895]

Daniel-John Lavaly they were still troops trained by Rommel.

[@sirilluminarthevaliant2895]

John Cornell Montgomery didn’t win. Wtf you talking about. Damn fool could of learned a thing of two from Rommel. Because he totally botched he battle for Caen

[@chriswalther7329]

George C. Scott was fantastic in this movie

[@bertlyte3471]

I feel like I would love this movie if I could get past the fact that those are Cold War era tanks...

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Sometimes it sucks to know stuff. I loved this film as a kid; now I can't watch this scene without thinking "Noo, those tanks are wrong!"

[@kharilane1340]

How many actual working Panzers do you think survived the war? Especially after the massive losses taken in the ill fated invasion of Soviet Russia. Sometimes you have to take stuff like that into account and suspend your critical outrage and just enjoy the film for what it can do instead of wishing for the impossible.

[@rednoob8954]

Khari Lane you don't have to use a real tank. You can use dummy tanks

[@kharilane1340]

And then people would complain about the crappy special effects!!!

[@rednoob8954]

Khari Lane well special effects wouldn't be much of a problem but the problem is just the unhistorical accuracy of the tanks

[@Happymouth1]

"How should we show tactics so Patton looks like he countered Rommel?" "Idk, just explode everything"

[@carolus9644]

1:31 that dude on the left really risked his body for that amazing performance

[@stevensonDonnie]

While some people say that Patton “missed a D-Day” he was actually an intrinsic part of the planning. The Germans knew of his value as a field commander, and his being in command of the first army [even though it was a fictitious army of inflatable tanks] he diverted the Germans long enough for the landings in Normandy to be successful. The station of the first army across from País de Calais kept most of the armor there waiting for Patton and believing that since he was not in Normandy that the landings were a ruse.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

You should read an account on the Hoover Institution site on 'The German View of Patton' by a German historian, Henrik Bering. Put simply, the Germans had never heard of him. For example, in a report produced by the German military in February, 1944, about Allied commanders for a potential D-Day, Patton does not feature. People's views of Patton today seem to be based on the ludicrous 1970 movie, which itself was based on Ladislas Farago's hagiography of him, rather than on the actual historical personality.

[@marinerman]

Thank you Linkara. Now I'll never get this out of my head!!! X)

[@intuitive7274]

PATTON. the ultimate general in the second world war

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

He was just an average general.

[@americanpatriot9865]

One of the greatest battle scenes in cinematic history.

[@orangeandbanana8864]

This was one of a kind bcz they used real tanks, but not historical accurate

[@orangeandbanana8864]

I mean, there was no cgi

[@brookenunley4475]

1:49 "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK!" um, ok, you didnt need to read his book if he was gonna do this but ok

[@chriswood753]

Americans re-writing history. It was mostly UK and ANZAC who were fighting in Africa for 3 years. An Australian Officer and Montgomery defeated Rommel.

[@Dannysoutherner]

Movie for an American audience. The Great Escape was the same. No disrespect to the Crown but TGE using historically correct casting would not have sold as well in the colonies.

[@jdsol1938]

Patton and Rommel never lead troops against each other in battle

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

He's not referring to Rommel directly when observing the retreating enemies. He's just employing the same strategies that Rommel used and complimenting him as a result.

[@jdsol1938]

at the time Patton thought he was facing Rommel . he had left africa a few days before .the allies did not know of his departure for some time . after Monty was supprised to find this . the movie is full of errors

[@NapoleonCalland]

Patton thought he was facing Rommel. That's a flaw in Allied intelligence, not the movie.

[@jdsol1938]

there s n proof Patton ever said the movie quote , the movie was made knowing it was false , is the information most have on the battle

[@jonathansobczak9394]

jdsol1938 I know this comment is from a while ago but they bring this up after the battle in the movie

[@menslady125eif2590]

RIP, George C. Scott and the real George S. Patton.

[@macleod1592]

George C Scott will always be one of my all time favorite actors. This movie shows why

[@gandhithegreat328]

I love it when a plan comes together!

[@johnbeavor218]

Me to my teacher when I walk into English class: 1:53

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

We fought the wrong enemy.

[@f15stroke]

I love this move for many reasons. But the most is because, although you can despise your enemy, you can still respect their military prowess.

[@thevillaaston7811]

Rommel and Patton never faced each other in battle.

[@SeanP7195]

Yes they make a point in this movie to point that out. Patton had originally believed that he had here

[@ericturner7173]

And the fact Rommel's book on armour hadn't been written yet...

[@Didymus20X6]

You think Patton would let something petty like the space-time continuum stop him?

[@ahmedbassam400]

Yoo the comments here are legendary.