Pattons Death

I was surprised that an almost three hour movie about Patton doesn't say at the end how he died. Some people know he died from injuries from a car accident in late 1945. but many others watching this decades later have no idea what happened to him.

True, but that's why we have Wikipedia and Google if anybody wants to learn more about it.

They actually did a made-for-TV sequel, The Last Days of Patton, in 1985, although George C. Scott was the only major cast member in it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091383

BO-O-O-O-RING!!! It's rather forgotten and rightfully so. It covered Patton from the end of the war through his ultimately fatal car crash and death, with a few flashbacks to his early childhood and the period between the two World Wars. They took one of the most colorful figures of the 20th century and made a movie about arguably the most boring six months of his life. If you ever watch the sequel, it will be clear that tacking an abbreviated version of it onto the original movie would've ruined it. Even if they just put a title over on the last scene reading "General George S. Patton died from injuries in an auto accident in Germany in December, 1945, shortly after leaving command of the Third Army" it would have ruined it.

Patton narrowly escaping getting hit by an oxcart (which was an actual incident, and thrown in as a foreshadowing of his actual death), repeating his oft-stated comment about wanting to die "from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war", and then walking his dog Willie past the windmill in an allusion to Don Quixote, was just about the perfect ending for this movie, and you don't mess with perfection.

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