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
Beyond the Darkness (film) the film were made by using animal intestines, pig skin and a sheep's heart which were provided by an abattoir. The score of the film was by Goblin, who were recruited by producer Dario Rossetti and included music that would later be re-used in "Contamination" and "Hell of the Living Dead". "Beyond the Darkness" was distributed theatrically in Italy by Eurocopfilms on 15 November 1979. The film grossed a total of 153.7 million Italian lire domestically. Italian film historian Roberto Curti stated that "Beyond the Darkness" performed "rather poorly at the Italian box office". The film has been released in