PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
United Artists, American Zoetrope

Apocalypse Now

This is the end...

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Genre:

Drama, War

Runtime:

147

Released:

1979

Rating:

8.271

Budget:

$31,500,000

Box Office:

$150,000,000

WRITERS

Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Michael Herr, Joseph Conrad

FILM OVERVIEW

Apocalypse Now

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.

DIRECTOR

Francis Ford Coppola

GALLERY

PRODUCTION TEAM

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Gerald B. Greenberg (Editor)

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Vic Ramos (Casting)

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George R. Nelson (Set Decoration)

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Terry Liebling (Casting)

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Jack H. Young (Makeup Artist)

Francis Ford Coppola (Producer)

Lisa Fruchtman (Editor)

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Fred C. Blau Jr. (Makeup Artist)

Walter Murch (Editor)

Francis Ford Coppola (Director)

CAST MEMBERS

Martin Sheen

Marlon Brando

Albert Hall

Frederic Forrest

Laurence Fishburne

Sam Bottoms

Robert Duvall

Dennis Hopper

G. D. Spradlin

Harrison Ford

MORE PRODUCTION

Angelo P. Graham (Art Direction), Leon Chooluck (Production Manager), Dean Tavoularis (Production Design), Walter Murch (Sound Designer), Vittorio Storaro (Director of Photography), Carmine Coppola (Original Music Composer), Barrie M. Osborne (Production Manager), Barry Malkin (Additional Editor), Jerry Ziesmer (Assistant Director), Jeff Scheftel (Thanks), Kerry Rossall (Stunts), Jerry Ross (Assistant Editor), Michael Herr (Additional Writing), Terry Leonard (Stunt Coordinator), Efren Lapid (First Assistant Camera), Larry Franco (Assistant Director), Joe Lombardi (Special Effects Coordinator), Tony Brandt (Assistant Director), Maurice Schell (Sound Editor), Jay Miracle (Sound Editor), James J. Murakami (Assistant Art Director), Josh Weiner (Still Photographer), Melissa Mathison (Executive Assistant), Piero Servo (Camera Operator), Zakir Hussain (Musician), Richard Beggs (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Leslie Hodgson (Sound Editor), Mark Berger (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Nathan Boxer (Sound Recordist), Larry Holt (Stunts), Wayne Fitzgerald (Title Designer), Mickey Hart (Musician), Tom Sternberg (Co-Producer), Francis Ford Coppola (Writer), Fred Roos (Co-Producer), Mona Skager (Associate Producer), John Ashley (Associate Producer), John Milius (Writer), Gray Frederickson (Co-Producer), Eddie Romero (Associate Producer), Francis Ford Coppola (Original Music Composer), Gerald Endler (Special Effects), Jack English (Location Coordinator), Michael Herr (Writer), Joseph Conrad (Author), Mauro Marchetti (Assistant Camera), Walter Murch (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)

MORE CAST

Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, James Keane, Kerry Rossall, Tom Mason, Cynthia Wood, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Aurore Clément, Jack Thibeau, Glenn Walken, Damien Leake, Marc Coppola, Bill Graham, Jerry Ross, Charles Robinson, Nick Nicholson, Don Gordon Bell, Evan A. Lottman, R. Lee Ermey, Jim Gaines, Vittorio Storaro, Francis Ford Coppola, Henry Strzalkowski, Herb Rice, Joe Estevez, Bo Byers, Frank Villard

'Apocalypse Now'

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