Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Marlon Brando

Dennis Hopper

Robert Duvall

Martin Sheen

GD Spradlin

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Laurence Fishburne

Frederic Forrest

Albert Hall

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BBC One - Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

A US officer (Martin Sheen) in Vietnam is tasked with a secret mission.

War epic. In 1970, Captain Willard is given a secret mission by the top brass to travel into Cambodia to 'terminate' a decorated American colonel who has gone rogue and is presumed insane. 

In 1970, Captain Willard on R&R in Saigon is given a secret mission by the top brass to travel the perilous river route through war-torn South Vietnam into neighbouring Cambodia to 'terminate' a decorated American colonel who has gone rogue and is presumed insane. 

Regularly voted one of the greatest films ever made, Apocalypse Now is based on Joseph Conrad's literary classic Heart of Darkness.

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