Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North

Credited screenwriters · Patton (1970, 20th Century-Fox)

The screenplay of Patton is credited to Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North. The film drew on Ladislas Farago’s Patton: Ordeal and Triumph and Omar N. Bradley’s A Soldier’s Story. George C. Scott delivered the line as Patton. The sources checked here do not say which of the two writers came up with it.

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“Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!”

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