Movie: Planet of the Apes (1968)

“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. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}”

• Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
• Release Date:
  3 May 1968 (West Germany)
• Run Time:
  112 min | Argentina:115 min | Spain:107 min (DVD edition)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Thriller

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.

Trivia: Michael Wilson was brought in to do a rewrite of Rod Serling’s screenplay. Wilson’s contribution is most evident in the kangaroo courtroom scene, Wilson being an embittered victim of the blacklisting McCarthy witchhunts of the 50s.

Goofs: Continuity: When Lucius comes to liberate Taylor, he clobbers Julius whose cigar falls out of his mouth. The next shot shows it back in his mouth.