1958 near fatal stabbing, by a deranged woman, and 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Paul Winfield) Coronel Delmiro Gouveia – 1978 Brazilian film by Geraldo Sarno about industrialist Delmiro Gouveia, reputedly killed in 1917 for failing to sell out to British business interests El Cantor – 1978 East German television film by Dean Reed about Chilean folksinger Víctor Jara (Reed), murdered after the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende Brass Target – 1978 film by John Hough about a plan in 1945 to assassinate Gen. Patton over his investigation of a theft of Reichsbank gold by U.S. Army officers Ruby and Oswald—1978 TV film which has Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest) assassinate U.S. President Kennedy. Foul Play – 1978 comedy-thriller by Colin Higgins involving a plot to assassinate the Pope in San Francisco, starring Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? – 1978 comedy by Ted Kotcheff, starring George Segal, in which European gourmet chefs are being served up like their greatest dishes Operación Ogro – 1979 Spanish film by Gillo Pontecorvo about the operation of the same name, targeting Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's Prime Minister, by ETA bombers in 1973 22 June 1897 – 1979 Indian (Marathi) film by Jayoo Patwardhan and Nachiket Patwardhan about the 1897 assassinations of plague-control officers, Charles Walter Rand and Charles Egerton Ayerst, in British India Roots: The Next Generations – 1979 ABC miniseries, by John Erman et al., based on the book by Alex Haley, includes the assassination of black nationalist Malcolm X (Al Freeman, Jr.) and features an interview with a figure later assassinated, American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell (Marlon Brando) Caligula – controversial 1979 film produced by Bob Guccione about the assassination of insane Roman Emperor Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) and his immediate family in AD 41 Steiner – Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (Steiner – The Iron Cross, Part 2, a.k.a. Breakthrough) – 1979 sequel by Andrew V. McLaglen in which German Army Sgt. Steiner from Cross of Iron (Richard Burton) becomes involved in a plot against Hitler I as in Icarus – 1979 French film by Henri Verneuil where a committee in a fictitious country, after their President's assassination, settles on a lone gunman, but a single investigator (Yves Montand) is dissatisfied Apocalypse Now – Palme d'Or-winning 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola, set during the Vietnam War, loosely inspired by Joseph