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Aug 15, 1979 · Apocalypse Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Box office. $104.8 million [4] [5] Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
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- 'On the Waterfront' (1954) But for all the praise that can be heaped Brando's way for The Godfather, it inevitably has some stiff competition from On the Waterfront, which might well be the only movie/performance that could be deemed better in the actor's body of work.
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- The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1972) R. Release Date. March 24, 1972. Director. Francis Ford Coppola. Cast. Marlon Brando , Diane Keaton , James Caan , Al Pacino , Robert Duvall.
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In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who ...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Overall, "The Score" is an incredible film that puts a final bow on the career of one of the greatest film actors of all time. 12. A Dry White Season. Sundance Productions. In part because of his ...
Here is a look back at Brando’s 10 career-defining performances. Apocalypse Now Marlon Brando Francis Ford Coppola. Forty years after the seminal ‘Apocalypse Now’, Graeme Ross ranks the top ...
