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Escape from the Planet of the Apes

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6.4/10 • 1.1K

1971-05-201h 38m

ActionScience Fiction

Meet baby Milo who has Washington terrified.

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Directors
Don Taylor
Characters
Pierre Boulle
Editors
Marion Rothman

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  1. Roddy McDowall

    Roddy McDowall

    Cornelius

  2. Kim Hunter

    Kim Hunter

    Dr. Zira

  3. Bradford Dillman

    Bradford Dillman

    Dr. Lewis Dixon

  4. Natalie Trundy

    Natalie Trundy

    Dr. Stephanie 'Stevie' Branton

  5. Eric Braeden

    Eric Braeden

    Dr. Otto Hasslein

  6. William Windom

    William Windom

    The President

  7. Sal Mineo

    Sal Mineo

    Dr. Milo

  8. Albert Salmi

    Albert Salmi

    E-1

  9. Jason Evers

    Jason Evers

    E-2

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Potential Kermode

Mar 18, 2017

6/10

A picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape. Indeed. Talk, talk and some more talk. Then they all decide to talk some more - taking a break for a little more talking - before finally deciding on talking just a little while longer. These actors must have had sore tongues after the film was completed. Some of them hospitalised with repetitive strain on the jawbone. A very talky film which could indeed lose the interest of younger viewers. Younger viewers don't want to see old men blabbering for 90 minutes - they want gorillas with machine guns. Lots of scenes of people with tobacco stained grey hair talking around 1970's tables and not much action here. Not enough psycho gorilla action. The three chimps should have brought at least one maniac gorilla with them for security reasons. If there weren't enough seats in the ship then I am certain he wouldn't mind standing. Perhaps they feared that once they arrived and they opened the ships hatch on the beach - everything from turtles, whelks and Brian Wilson's surf board would have been riddled with bullets.
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,500,000.00
Revenue
$12,348,905.00
Keywords
spacecraftdystopiapacifismpoliticiansequelcagechimpanzeeteasecaving