Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others. It is widely believed that Conrad drew influence from these characters, as well as Stevenson's plot lines, when writing "Heart of Darkness". In the 1958 loose adaptation for the CBS television anthology series "Playhouse 90" Kurtz was played by Boris Karloff. This version uses the encounter between Marlow and Kurtz as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now" (1979) centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by
Darkness on the Edge of Town truths in hard rock settings" made for a less accessible work than "Born to Run". "Rolling Stone" later wrote that the album was the E Street Band's best performance, "colored by the raw sound happening at the time". In 2003, it was ranked at number 151 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. According to Acclaimed Music, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is the 103rd most frequently ranked record on critics' all-time lists. A box set reissue entitled The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story was released on November 16, 2010.