George C. Scott was one of the OG scenery devourers. You can’t spell his name without an “O” and a “G,” too, so do with that what you will.

The 1970 film about the American general, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, sought to understand one of the nation’s greatest military men at a time of political cynicism and antiwar fervor.

Played by George C. Scott, who won an Oscar for his performance, Gen. George S. Patton Jr. proceeds to give an address adapted from a rousingly robust speech the general delivered in real life in ...