Movie
1968
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science-fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the…
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Source The movie series Planet of the Apes, initially was adapted from the 1963 French novel "La Planète des Singes" by Pierre Boulle ,which translate to The Planet of The Apes; is popular among movie fans worldwide. The first iteration of the Planet of the Apes movie series that debuted in 1968 was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with Charlton Heston in the lead role, the success of this movie initiated a line to…More
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The author of this review has rarely greeted a film with higher expectation than in the case of the original *Planet of the Apes*. I had been hearing great things about the film for decades before being able to see it for the first time. My expectations were not diminished by the fact that I had already seen the important final scene, nor by my utter disappointment in the form of the 1970s TV series. When I finally…More
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