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
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.