Reprint The ’Speech’, Somewhere in England, June 5th,1944 General Patton arose and strode swiftly to the microphone. The men snapped to their feet and stood silently. Patton surveyed the sea of… ...

Coppola mentions in the DVD commentary that he was fired from the production, because his version opens with Patton's speech, but the final cut uses most of Coppola's 1966 script.

Seventy-one years ago this week, U.S. Army General George S. Patton, Jr. delivered what is considered one of the most rousing military speeches of all time to the American 3rd Army waiting to do ...