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Escape from the Planet of the Apes: Directed by Don Taylor. With Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy. The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Don Taylor and written by Paul Dehn. The film is the sequel to Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and the third installment in the original Planet of the Apes film series.
Escape From the Planet of the Apes. In this second sequel to "Planet of the Apes," three apes flee their world before it's destroyed, and travel back in time to present-day America.
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'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' begins by establishing that three chimpanzee apes, Cornelius (Roddy McDowall), Zira (Kim Hunter), and Dr. Milo (Sal Mineo) escaped the Earth's destruction by salvaging and repairing the astronaut Taylor's spaceship (which sank in the Dead Lake in the desert Forbidden Zone in the first movie) and piloting it ...
Escape from the Planet of the Apes is the second sequel to the original Planet of the Apes and its premise is to reverse the plot of that movie. The film begins over two years after Taylor and Brent had disappeared in space, with a spaceship floating in the Pacific Ocean off of California and military personnel scrambling to rescue those on board.
Unlike the apocalyptic scenarios of the first two films, Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a light fish-out-of-water comedy for most of its running time, a charming change of pace for the at-times heavy handed series.
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
