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.
Details
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- Michael Herr
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $31,500,000
Cast
Albert Hall
Dennis Hopper
Frederic Forrest
G. D. Spradlin
Harrison Ford
Laurence Fishburne
Marlon Brando
Martin Sheen
Robert Duvall
Sam Bottoms
Keywords
absurd
anti war
army
awestruck
based on novel or book
brutality
cambodia
central intelligence agency (cia)
commanding
descent into madness
distressing
drug abuse
epic
green beret
guerrilla warfare
insanity
journalist
jungle
macabre
military
mission
riverboat
secret mission
surrealism
tribe
vietcong
vietnam
vietnam war
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