Released near the height of the Vietnam War, Franklin Schaffner’s epic portrait poses the title general as both an anachronistic knight-errant and a brutal sociopath. The script spends as much time on the political maneuvering between generals as the battlefield kind, but it all pales beside George C. Scott’s magisterial performance. The ever-present ass-kissy staff officers play pretty weird in 2026.
1970 Franklin J Schaffner 2.20:1 Color DCP 172 min.
