Apocalypse Now

Also Known As: Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier

Company: Zoetrope Studios

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Budget: $31,500,000

Full Cast: Marlon Brando / Martin Sheen / Robert Duvall / Frederic Forrest / Sam Bottoms / Laurence Fishburne / Albert Hall / Harrison Ford / Dennis Hopper / G.D. Spradlin / Jerry Ziesmer / Scott Glenn / Bo Byers / James Keane / Kerry Rossall / Ron McQueen / Tom Mason / Cynthia Wood / Colleen Camp / Linda Carpenter / Jack Thibeau / Glenn Walken / George Cantero / Damien Leake / Herb Rice / William Upton / Larry Carney / Marc Coppola / Daniel Kiewit / Father Elias / Bill Graham / Hattie James / Jerry Ross / Dick White / Christian Marquand / Aurore Clément / Michel Pitton / Franck Villard / David Olivier / Chrystel Le Pelletier / Robert Julian / Yvon LeSeaux / Roman Coppola / Gian-Carlo Coppola / Henri Sadardeil / Gilbert Renkens / Don Gordon Bell / Francis Ford Coppola / R. Lee Ermey / Jim Gaines / Evan A. Lottman / Nick Nicholson / Linn Phillips III / Pierre Segui / Vittorio Storaro / Henry Strzalkowski / Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley

Cast and Character: Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz / Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard / Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore / Frederic Forrest as Jay 'Chef' Hicks / Sam Bottoms as Lance B. Johnson / Laurence Fishburne as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller / Albert Hall as Chief Phillips / Harrison Ford as Colonel Lucas / Dennis Hopper as Photojournalist / G.D. Spradlin as General Corman / Jerry Ziesmer as Jerry, Civilian / Scott Glenn as Lieutenant Richard M. Colby / Bo Byers as MP Sergeant #1 / James Keane as Kilgore's Gunner / Kerry Rossall as Mike from San Diego

Color: Color

Countries: USA

Creators: n/A

Description: During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

Directors: Francis Ford Coppola

Genres: Drama / War

Languages: English / French / Vietnamese / Khmer

Location: Philippines

MPAA: Rated R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use

Opening Weekend: £68,351

Plot: It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him! Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will...

Poster: posters/0078788.jpg

Rating: 8.6

Release Date: 15 August 1979 (USA)

Runtime: 153 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track / Dolby Digital / Dolby / DTS

Tagline: The Horror. . . The Horror. . .

Title: Apocalypse Now

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/

Votes: 295,842

Writers: John Milius / Francis Ford Coppola

Year: 1979

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