Patton ~ Sunday 23 June 2024
Special event for 80th Anniversay of D-Day
Sunday 23 June 2024 at 7.00 p.m.
Admission: £6
Notes/exact change only, where possible, for safety please ~ all seats unreserved.
Doors open 30 min before screening.
Certificate PG ~ 172 minutes.
An outstandingly brilliant film and performance and a neglected film till the Picture House requested it in May 2022.
“One of the great war films…both patriotic and anti-war in its delivery” Awards Daily.
“One of the greatest war movies ever made” Movie Nation.
A film about Warriors and War through the WWII period of the career of US General George S Patton, the most brilliantly successful tank commander whose own sense of history and belief in re-incarnation universalises the themes. Both an epic [pre-CGI]-that Hollywood originally did not have the guts to make – and a mature film about a hero-villain in all his glorious and vainglorious humanity. George C Scott’s sympathetic and unflinching portrayal…is as definitive as any in the history of cinema and Michael Billington, theatre critic, rated it one of the greatest ever C20th performances in his book on acting.
In 2003 the film was preserved in the US Library of Congress and the Academy Fillm Archive as ’culturally, historically and aesthetically significant’.
Director: Franklin J Shaffner
Starring: George C Scott, Karl Malden.
Script: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund North, Ladislas Farago
25 international awards inc. 7 Oscars: Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film, Best Script, Best Art/Set Direction, Best Sound, Best Editing.
Doors open 30 min. before screenings for Front Row