Roddy McDowall
Caesar
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, based on a story by Paul Dehn. The film is the sequel to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and the fifth and final installment in the original Planet of the Apes ...
- June 13, 1973
- Arthur P. Jacobs
Jun 15, 1973 · IMDb page for the 1973 sci-fi film about Caesar's struggle to keep peace among apes and humans. See cast, crew, plot, reviews, trivia, goofs, and more.
- (33K)
- Action, Sci-Fi
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1973-06-15
A sci-fi movie series finale with low ratings and reviews. Ape Caesar faces a human mutant threat in 2670, while the story is told in flashback.
- (549)
- J. Lee Thompson
- G
- Roddy Mcdowall
Synopsis. Battle for the Planet of the Apes opens to a brief interlude narrated by an ape known as The Lawgiver ( John Huston ), speaking in the year 2670. We quickly flash back to what must be the early 21st century. This is a post-nuclear holocaust world.
The fifth and final movie of the Planet of the Apes series, starring Roddy McDowall as Caesar. Caesar seeks the truth about his parents' murder and faces a human attack and a coup from his own kind.
- J. Lee Thompson
- Pat Cardi
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The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. A community of intelligent apes led by Caesar faces a gorilla general and human mutants who threaten their harmony.
Ebert pans the fifth and final ape movie as incompetently made, painfully thin and uninteresting. He criticizes the plot, the dialog, the transitions and the battle footage, and questions the message of nonviolence.
