Apocalypse Now is a war novel.
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed , produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola . Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited thousands of feet of film . It is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made . Marlon Brando . ( 1952 ) , Julius Caesar ( 1953 ) , The Wild One ( 1953 ) , Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) , Sayonara ( 1957 ) , Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ) , Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ) , and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) . He finished out the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Kurtz in another Coppola film , Apocalypse Now , a box-office hit for which he was highly paid and which helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s .