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Full double album soundtrack for the award winning Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now.  Includes both dust jackets in perfect condition.  Cover folds out.  Album cover itself has some shelf wear, and a small tear on inside cover.  You can see it on top right corner in photo above (on Marlon Brando's face).  I haven't attempted a tape repair, but you easily could.  All in all, excellent condition.
Wikipedia says: Apocalypse Now Theatrical release poster by  Directed byProduced byFrancis CoppolaWritten by Francis Coppola Narration byStarring Music by Francis Coppola CinematographyEdited by Production
company Distributed by Release date May 10, 1979 () August 15, 1979 (United States) Running time 153 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$31.5 millionBox office$150 million

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American   directed, produced, and co-written by . It stars , , , , , , , and . The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and  (who received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and featuring narration written by , is an updating of 's novella . The setting was changed from late nineteenth-century Congo to the  ca. 1969–70, the years in which Green Beret Colonel , commander of the , was indicted for murder and President Richard Nixon authorized the secret . Coppola said that Rheault was an inspiration for the character of Colonel Kurtz. The voice-over narration of Willard was written by  Herr, whose 1977 Vietnam memoir  brought him to the attention of Coppola. A major influence on the film was 's  (1972), which also features a river journey and an insane soldier. The film revolves around a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (a character based on Conrad's  and played by Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate , a renegade Army officer accused of murder who is presumed insane.

The film has been noted for the problems encountered while making it, chronicled in the documentary  (1991). These problems included Brando arriving on the set overweight and completely unprepared, expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather, and Sheen having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack while on location. Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited thousands of feet of film.

Apocalypse Now was honored with the  at , nominated for the , and the . Initial reviews were mixed; while 's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. Reevaluated in subsequent years, Apocalypse Now is today considered to be . It ranked No. 14 in 's greatest films poll in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the  by the  as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".