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
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