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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 Acaemy Award, Cannes Palme d'Or and Golden Globe winning adventure war film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the tale of Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard who is sent into the jungle to assassinate United States Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), who has gone AWOL and is believed to be insane. The film has been viewed as a journey into the darkness of the human psyche.

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  • 1979:"I love the smell of napalm in the morning...smells like...victory"
  • 1979 film in which Robert Duvall loved "the smell of napalm in the morning"
  • For his "Redux" of this war film, Francis Ford Coppola added 49 minutes of footage not in the original cut
  • The jungles of Vietnam in this 1979 Coppola film were actually in the Philippines
  • One of the last lines of this Vietnam war-set film is "The horror... the horror"
  • The documentary "Hearts of Darkness" recounted the harrowing making of this other movie
  • No. 12:"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
  • Col. Kurtz, who lives in the heart of darkness
  • In this epic tale of men & war, Martin Sheen played Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier sent on a assassination
  • Air Cav Lt. Col. Kilgore says that "Charlie don't surf" in this 1979 film
  • (Hi, I'm Stephen King, Master of Horror.) In this 1979 film, Marlon Brando's character declares "The horror!... The horror!"
  • (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) I appreciate the maxim "Never get out of the boat", a cardinal rule of this 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film
  • When the star wasn't available, his brother Joe Estevez was brought in to do voiceovers on this 1979 film

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