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Mar 27, 2017 · On March 27, 1968, Fox brought Planet of the Apes to Los Angeles for its opening day at the Beverly Theatre, where moviegoers lined up “around the block” and grosses “smashed all opening day ...
Mar 26, 2024 · Planet of the Apes is a 1968 film about an astronaut who finds himself 2,000+ years in the future, stranded on an earth-like planet where humans are enslaved by apes. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Written by Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Rod Serling.
Release Date: February 8, 1968. Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction. Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted ...
Planet of the Apes: Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans. An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
Jun 20, 2017 · 1. MOST STUDIOS, AND THE BOOK’S AUTHOR, THOUGHT IT WOULD MAKE A TERRIBLE MOVIE. Apes, especially talking ones, were the stuff of B-movies back in the 1960s, so nobody took them seriously. That ...
Our review: Parents say ( 10 ): Kids say ( 26 ): The direction by Franklin J. Schaffner -- who would win a Best Director Oscar two years later for Patton -- is impersonal and uninspired in this film. Charlton Heston 's lead character is hard-headed and inflexible. But somehow Planet of the Apes ' melding of clever science fiction ideas with old ...
