Saturday: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut (1979) BBC2, 11.00pm - Director Francis Ford Coppola added 30 extra minutes to his Vietnam war epic, and now there s a chance to see it in all its glory. Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, an assassin assigned to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who is believed to have descended into insanity.
Winner of two Oscars, including Best Cinematography, and two Baftas, it has gone on to influence countless movies, from Tropic Thunder and Avatar, to the more recent Ad Astra. Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford and Laurence Fishburne also star, while Robert Duvall has a memorable turn as the surf-obsessed Colonel Kilgore.
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