"The Bradley name gets heavy billing on a picture of [a] comrade that, while not caricature, is the likeness of a victorious, glory-seeking buffoon … Patton in the flesh was an enigma. He so stays in the film. … Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature … Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say. And maybe, just maybe, obsequious sycophants should not be allowed to lead armies."
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S. L. A. Marshall, on the portrayals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley in the film, in "Great Georgie Redone", in The Charleston Gazette (21 March 1970), § 4. p. 4
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