Apocalypse Now (1979) Marlon Brando Colonel Walter E Kurtz Martin Sheen Captain Benjamin L Willard Robert Duvall Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Kilgore Frederic Forrest Hicks--the Sam Bottoms Lance Albert Hall Chief Phillips Laurence Fishburne Dennis Hopper Photo-journalist Harrison Ford Colonel Lucas G. D. Spradlin General Corman Jerry Ziesmer Civilian Scott Glenn Captain Richard Colby Bo Byers 1st MP Sergeant James Keane (II) Kilgore s Gunner Kerry Rossall Mike from San Diego Ron McQueen Injured Soldier Tom Mason Supply Sergeant Colleen Camp Playmate Linda Carpenter Playmate Cynthia Wood (II) Playmate of the Year Jack Thibeau (II) Soldier in Trench Glenn Walken Lieutenant Carlsen George Cantero Soldier with Suitcase Damien Leake (II) Machine Gunner Herb Rice Roach William Upton Spotter Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola Produced by: Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people, and constructed a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle. Willard and his crew embark on a surreal river journey to find Kurtz, meeting along the way a Lieutenant-Colonel who surfs during live combat, Playboy bunnies dropped in by helicopter to entertain rowdy troops, and the inhabitants of a French plantation trapped in colonial times. ========== 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 Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission? ========== At the height of the Vietnam war, experienced soldier and covert operative Captain Benjamin Willard withdraws from a drunken and disheveled state to accept his most daring and secretive mission yet. His objective is to travel down the Nyung river by boat and assassinate a Green Beret Colonel named Kurtz who has gone insane deep within the Jungle, and leads his men and a local tribe as a god on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. As Willard and the crew of a Navy PR boat unaware of his objective embark on their journey from the security of civilization into the untamed depths of the jungle, Willard confronts not only the same horrors and hypocrisy that pushed the level headed Colonel Kurtz over the edge into an abyss if insanity, but the primal violence of human nature and the darkness of his own heart. ========== Vietnam, 1969. Burnt out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with top-secret orders to find and kill renegade Colonel Kurtz who has set up his own army within the jungle. As Willard descends into the jungle, he is slowly over taken by the jungle's mesmerizing powers and battles the insanity which surrounds him. His boat crew succumbs to drugs and is slowly killed off one by one. As Willard continues his journey he becomes more and more like the man he was sent to kill.