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The Wide Open Door (1967)

Broadway (1955)

The Wide Open Door (1967)

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Patton (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Americans, Traditionally, Love To Fight

Patton (1970) -- (Movie Clip) What Happened At Kasserine?

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The Wide Open Door (1967)

Broadway (1955)

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The Wide Open Door (1967)

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Patton (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Americans, Traditionally, Love To Fight Based on no actual speech, assembled by screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola from quotes from the subject, George C. Scott in his Academy Award-winning title role, director Franklin Schaffner elected to make the famous monologue his opening, in Patton, 1970.

Patton (1970) -- (Movie Clip) What Happened At Kasserine? Director Franklin Schaffner's staging of the arrival of the the general (George C. Scott, title character) in Tunisia, 1943, after a disastrous encounter with the Germans, largely as described in the autobiography of General Omar Bradley (Karl Malden), in the hit bio-pic Patton, 1970.

Patton (1970) -- (Movie Clip) You Know Who The Poet Was? Fanciful scene from screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, though the authorship of the poem is true (cribbed from Corinthians), George C. Scott (title character) brings colleague General Bradley (Karl Malden) to an ancient battlefield in Tunisia, in Patton, 1970.

Best Man, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Unexpectedly Ambitious Candid discussion from screenwriter Gore Vidal as candidate William Russell (Henry Fonda) confers with wife Alice (Margaret Leighton) in an early scene from director Franklin Schaffner's The Best Man, 1964.

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