By Vaughan Savidge

(music - military snare drums - battle sounds)

Never in the history of motion picture entertainment has anyone witnessed such a spectacle.

The greatest, most hard-assed general who ever lived.

George C. Scott stars as - "Patten"

With pearl-handled pistols he ruled his subordinates with a velvet hand inside a steel night-dress.

CLIPS FROM FILM:

Woman's voice:

Oh General, oh General. You're so hard-assed.

 

Man's voice (Scottie from Star Trek):

General, general we're not gonna make it general. Hong Kong's at Warp factor 9 and she's gonna break up. I can't hold her General.

 

Patten's voice:

Surround the goddamn enemy and put 'em on the first through train outta here!

And here's what the papers say.

SCMP:

"Patten" - You've never seen anything like it.

 

Beijing Worker's Daily T & A

"Patten" - You've never wanted to see anything like it.

"Patten" - the film China rated double X - (or was it double cross?)

"Patten" - the man who slapped his privates.

CopyrightŠ1993 Evans and Savidge