Planet of the Apes (1968)
Director:
Franklin J. Schaffner
Tagline:
« Somewhere in the universe there must be something better than man. In a matter of time, an astronaut will wing through the centuries and find the answer. He may find the most terrifying one of all on the planet where apes are the rulers and man the beast. »
Actors:
George Taylor
Cornelius
Zira
Dr. Zaius
President of the Assembly
Rating:
(210’436 votes)
(210’436 votes)
Quotes:
[the first words ever spoken by a human to the apes]
« George Taylor: Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
»
[last lines]
« George Taylor: Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it.
»
[screaming]
« George Taylor: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
»
« Dr. Zaius: You are right, I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy. His emotions must rule his brain. He must be a warlike creature who gives battle to everything around him, even himself.
»
Trailer:
Planet of the Apes
Runtime:112 minutes
Plots:
After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes.
In the year A.D. 3978, a spaceship with a crew of 4 crashes on a distant planet. One of the crew members had died in space, and the other 3 head out to explore the planet. They soon learn that the planet is much like their own. They then find the planet is inhabited by intelligent apes. One of the men is shot and killed, and the others are taken to the apes’ city. There, one undergoes brain surgery and is put into a state of living death. The other befriends some of the apes but is feared by most. After being put through ape trial, he escapes with a female human native to the planet. After helping his ape friends escape a religious heresy trial, he escapes out into the wilderness with the female. There he learns the planet might not be so distant after all.
