Based on the book by Ladislas Farago, this made-for-television biographical film explores the early years and final days of General George S. Patton (George C. Scott). Shortly after the close of WWII, President Dwight D. Eisenhower relieves the controversial military leader from his command of the Third Army Division and places him in charge of writing the history of the Second World War. But on December 9, 1945, the disgruntled Patton is seriously injured in an automobile accident near Mannheim, Germany. As he lies paralyzed in an Army hospital bed, surrounded by his wife Beatrice (Eva Mari Saint) and a team of doctors who struggle to save his life, Patton awaits death by recalling his happier days of childhood, his career as a young junior officer during World War I and a wartime affair with his wife´s niece (Kathryn Leigh Scott).

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