Badlands

His own directorial debut, Badlands (1973), which he also scripted, starred Martin Sheen as a small-town hoodlum who persuades a naive teenage girl (played by Sissy Spacek) to run away with him as he embarks on a string of dispassionate murders. The film (one of several to be inspired…

…Terrence Malick’s directorial film debut, Badlands, followed by another small role, in 1974, in the television movie The Execution of Private Slovik. Both projects starred his father.

…director Terrence Malick’s crime drama Badlands. In 1979 he landed his most prominent movie role, in Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark war film Apocalypse Now, which is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1902). Sheen, a last-minute replacement for Harvey Keitel, played Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, who is…

…Terrence Malick’s first feature film, Badlands (1973); her narration and her performance as a bored teenage girl joining her boyfriend (played by Martin Sheen) in a murder spree won critical praise. In 1974 Spacek appeared in the TV movie The Migrants (written by Lanford Wilson from a Tennessee Williams short…