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APOCALYPSE NOW, co-written by director Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius opens in NY and LA. Coppola's much celebrated chef d'oeuvre transposes Conrad's Heart of Darkness onto the Vietnam war. Martin Sheen is the US Army Captain assigned to locate and terminate the command of Marlon Brando's jungle-based rogue Army Colonel. Co-starring Robert Duvall, Lawrence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper, the film shares the Cannes Festival's Palm D'or with Volker Schlondorff's The Tin Drum. and goes on to win Oscars for Sound Design and Vittorio Stottaro's cinematography. In 2001, Coppola releases Apocalypse Now Redux, a director's cut featuring 49 minutes of footage excised from the original theatrical run.
