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Planet of the Apes

Cast

Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans View All

Crew

Franklin J. Schaffner (Director) View All

Release: Feb. 7th, 1968

Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes

An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

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Iroquois
There's an obvious anti-creationist tract at work here as various ape scholars dismiss the existence of intelligent humans on religious grounds, but it's interesting to see a civil rights allegory at work as the privileged sub-group unapologetically denigrates a supposedly inferior group (that is on....

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MovieMeditation
But when the film goes all in, debating the very rights of a living creature, as well as their ideologies, viewpoints and beliefs whether religiously or scientifically that is when the film moves to a whole other level of genius and thought provoking filmmaking.

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MovieMad16
Now this film is DARK...VERY DARK...WELL QUITE DARK.The story is very good and isvery enjoyable.The characters are splendid in this even Nova who never speaks in the film (don`t tell me if she does in the next one...and yes i know what happens in 2).

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