Apocalypse Now
“This is the end...”
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.
Genres
Drama, War
Studio
American Zoetrope
Language
en
Status
Released
How Apocalypse Now performed
Budget
$31.5M
Worldwide Gross
$150.0M
Gross Profit
$118.5M
Return
4.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$22M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Captain Benjamin Willard
Martin Sheen
Captain Benjamin Willard
Colonel Walter Kurtz
Marlon Brando
Colonel Walter Kurtz
Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Frederic Forrest
Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Chief Phillips
Albert Hall
Chief Phillips
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Laurence Fishburne
Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Lance B. Johnson
Sam Bottoms
Lance B. Johnson
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Robert Duvall
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
General Corman
G.D. Spradlin
General Corman
Colonel
Harrison Ford
Colonel
Jerry, Civilian
Jerry Ziesmer
Jerry, Civilian
Lieutenant Richard M. Colby
Scott Glenn
Lieutenant Richard M. Colby
Mike from San Diego
Kerry Rossall
Mike from San Diego
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