Overview:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.| Status: | Released (1979-08-15) |
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| Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 21 wins & 33 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $96,042,913 |
| Screen: | John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr |
| Productions: | United Artists, American Zoetrope |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | , English, Français, Tiếng Việt |
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Posters
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Casts
- 8349: Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin Willard
- 8351: Frederic Forrest - Jay 'Chef' Hicks
- 8354: Albert Hall - Chief Phillips
- 2975: Laurence Fishburne - Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- 8350: Sam Bottoms - Lance B. Johnson
- 3084: Marlon Brando - Colonel Walter Kurtz
- 3087: Robert Duvall - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Crews
- 1776: Francis Ford Coppola - Director - Directing
- 1776: Francis Ford Coppola - Producer - Production
- 2872: Carmine Coppola - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 7202: Vittorio Storaro - Director of Photography - Camera
- 3274: Lisa Fruchtman - Editor - Editing
- 852: Gerald B. Greenberg - Editor - Editing
- 154: Walter Murch - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Ian Beale
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**Ponderous, meandering epic with a few bright spots.** This film is about a soldiers quest to find a renegade and insane Colonel (a bald Brando in an extended cameo) who has hidden himself away in the depths of the jungle and is causing all manner of commotion. Quite what it wa ....
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I think a lot of people who think this film is a classic are deranged, the only memorable scene in the film is when they drop exploding napalm and the guy in the hat says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", the rest of the film is a completely boring bombshell and it's like ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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***One of the greatest films ever made*** The original "Apocalypse Now" is an awe-inspiring masterpiece and is my all-time favorite film. Memorable scenes abound, starting with the mind-blowing opening with Willard (Martin Sheen) having a mental breakdown in his sweltering Saigon ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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It wasn't just insanity and murder, there was enough of that to go around for everyone. Apocalypse Now is directed by Francis Ford Coppola who also co-adapts the screenplay with John Milius from Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad. It stars Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robe ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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This is, I think, the definitive Vietnam war movie. Martin Sheen is "Capt. Willard", a war weary veteran who is sent on a top secret mission to track down and stop the rogue Colonel 'Kurtz" (Marlon Brando) who is operating independently from Cambodia. With only a small crew of rookie ....
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