At the height of the Vietnam war, experienced soldier and covert operative Captain Benjamin Willard withdraws from a drunken and disheveled state to accept his most daring and secretive mission yet. His objective is to travel down the Nyung river by boat and assassinate a Green Beret Colonel named Kurtz who has gone insane deep within the Jungle, and leads his men and a local tribe as a god on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. As Willard and the crew of a Navy PR boat unaware of his objective embark on their journey from the security of civilization into the untamed depths of the jungle, Willard confronts not only the same horrors and hypocrisy that pushed the level headed Colonel Kurtz over the edge into an abyss if insanity, but the primal violence of human nature and the darkness of his own heart.

Steve McQueen was the first to turn down the role of Captain Willard.

[while flying in a helicopter with Air Cavalry soldiers]


Chef:
Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?


Soldier:
So we don't get our balls blown off.

Continuity: The blades of the Huey helicopter when the Playmate of the Year arrives.

by The Doors
Performed by The Doors
Courtesy of Elektra/Asylum Records