It was one of the most famous re-castings in film history. But according to the film’s editor Walter Murch, actor Harvey Keitel – who was replaced by Martin Sheen as Captain Willard after three weeks of shooting – actually appears in the finished version of ‘Apocalypse Now’.

“He’s in the film,” says Murch, a frequent Coppola collaborator who cut the Vietnam epic.

“If you look at the shot, it’s from a helicopter looking at the boat as it’s taking off from the dock at the beginning of the trip. The boat leaves the dock and circles and heads out in the ocean. The person sitting on the front of the boat is Harvey Keitel. It’s such a long shot you can’t tell, but he is in the film!”