Willard is flown by helicopter to Cam Ranh Bay and joins a Navy PBR commanded by 'Chief' Phillips (Albert Hall) and crewmen Lance (Sam Bottoms), 'Chef' (Frederic Forrest) and 'Mr. They play a recording of Kurtz' voice, captured by Army intelligence where Kurtz rambles about the destruction of the war and a snail crawling on the edge of a straight razor. Kurtz apparently went insane and now commands his own Montagnard troops inside neutral Cambodia. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) and 'terminate his command with extreme prejudice'. Spradlin) and Colonel Lucas (Harrison Ford) approach him with a top-secret assignment to follow the Nung River into the remote jungle, find rogue Special Forces Colonel Walter E. One day two military policemen arrive at Willard's Saigon apartment and after cleaning him up, escort him to an officers trailer where military intelligence officers Lt. He drinks heavily, chain-smokes and hallucinates alone in his room, becoming very upset and injuring himself when he breaks a large mirror.

Willard (Martin Sheen), has returned to Saigon on another combat tour during the Vietnam War, casually admitting that he is unable to rejoin society in the USA and that his marriage has broken up. Army Captain and special operations veteran Benjamin L. The story opens in Saigon, South Vietnam late in 1969. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission? - Derek O'Cain After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S.

The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S.

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