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
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