Heart of Darkness Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes Inga Swenson and Eartha Kitt. The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture "Apocalypse Now" based on the screenplay by John Milius, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In "Apocalypse Now", Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to "terminate the command" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. Marlon Brando played Kurtz, in one of his most famous roles. A production documentary of the
The Visitor (1979 film) one critic to call the film an ""Exorcist" knock-off". That same review cited other obvious influences on the film like "Carrie", "The Birds", and "The Lady from Shanghai". On Rotten Tomatoes, it received an aggregate score of 87% based on 14 reviews. The Visitor (1979 film) The Visitor is a 1979 Italian-American science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise) and based on a story by the Egypt-born Italian writer and producer Ovidio G. Assonitis. Unlike many of its contemporaries, it features a cast of well-established stars including John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn