The Vietnam War came back to life for more than three hours Monday night in Manhattan with the New York premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now Redux," his recut version of his 1979 cinematic take on the Joseph Conrad story, "Heart of Darkness." Among the attendees were Coppola, along with director daughter Sofia Coppola, and some actors from the film, including Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Aurore Clement and Collen Camp. Also there were Alec Baldwin and Ralph Macchio. (The film's stars, Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, did not attend.) Camp was 23 when she played a Playboy bunny in the original "Apocalypse," but her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor, until now. "It gave me another prospective of the world, and I worked with the greatest director in the world," Camp said of the marathon location shoot in the Philippines that nearly bankrupted Coppola, who sank some of his "The Godfather" fortune into the project. Fishburne arrived at the re-premiere on Monday with his fiancé, Gina Torres. The actor was only 14 when he landed the role of the doomed Army private in the original "Apocalypse" and 17 when it finally came out. "This movie has impacted my life as well as my career," Fishburne told PEOPLE. As for seeing it again, he said, "I used to know how the movie ends and now I don't. I'm very excited."