


Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), a gung-ho commander with a love of Wagner, surfing, and napalm. They are escorted on part of their journey by an air cavalry unit led by Lt. Willard is assigned to a navy patrol boat operated by Chief (Albert Hall) and three hapless soldiers (Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, and Larry Fishburne). Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an errant American colonel (Marlon Brando).
