Movie: Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Release Date: 27 March 1980 (Hong Kong)
- Writers: John Milius (screenplay) and Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay) …
- Run Time: 153 min | 202 min (Redux version)
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action , Drama , War
- MPAA: Rated R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use. (2001 director's cut)
Tagline: The Horror. . . The Horror. . .
Trivia: Harvey Keitel was then cast as Willard. Two weeks into shooting, director Francis Ford Coppola replaced him with Martin Sheen.
Goofs: Continuity: LTC Kilgore’s helicopter wasn’t carrying surfboards. He sent his helicopter with the injured child and his mother. His helicopter carried rocket pods which weren’t present when it left (could have been released after the pods were emptied). The surfboards were on a helicopter to the left of Kilgore’s.
“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? Written by Derek O'Cain”
