An imaginative ground breaking sci-fi film with biting cultural commentary
Happy New Year to everyone! I thought that I might begin the year with another Charlton Heston post-apocalypse sci-fi film, The Planet of the Apes (1968), the first of the three films that also features, The Omega Man and Soylent Green.
Trailer
Screenplay by Michael Wilson, Rod Serling
Based on “Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boulle
Produced by Arthur P. Jacobs
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Edited by Hugh S. Fowler
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Production company: APJAC Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Running time: 112 minutes
Budget: $5.8 million[2]
Box office: $33.4 million
Cast
Charlton Heston as George TaylorRoddy McDowall as Cornelius
Kim Hunter as Zira
Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius
James Whitmore as President of the Assembly
James Daly as Honorious
Linda Harrison as Nova
Robert Gunner as Landon
Lou Wagner as Lucius
Woodrow Parfrey as Maximus
Jeff Burton as Dodge
Buck Kartalian as Julius
Norman Burton as Hunt Leader
Wright King as Dr. Galen
Paul Lambert as Minister
Dianne Stanley as Stewart
Thrust into the year A.D. 3978!
Three astronauts emerge from deep hibernation…
Their vessel crash-lands on a mysterious planet!!
One of the crew has accidentally died in space!
The space craft sinks under the waters of a lake.
The three survivors head off to explore their new home:
With limited rations
&
A hostile arid desert plain,
They trek in search of food, water and evidence of life,
Only to discover that they are not alone,
and that their troubles have only just begun…….
Read on for more......