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Apocalypse Now 1979

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Apocalypse Now
Cast
Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, G Spradlin
Director
Francis Coppola
Producer
Francis Coppola, Kim Aubry, Fred Roos, Tom Sternberg, Gray Frederickson
Writer
Francis Coppola, John Milius
Duration
02:33:00
Release
Monday January 1 1979
Genres
Drama, Action/Adventure

Synopsis

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.

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