Goes off in its own direction, immediately setting the whimsical tone with the amusing pre-credits sequence where the military greet the astronauts and begin to salute them with "Gentleman, welcome to the United Sta." but stop short and are stunned when the visitors remove their space helmets to
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Whereas the first sequel slavishly tried to copy the style of the original film and continue its story-but foolishly eliminated its intellectual and philosophical content-by the time ESCAPE was made, the series had taken on a life of its own and become a pop-culture phenomenon. At the circus, Armando talks to the real baby and it speaks the words, "Mama, mama."
They're soon discovered and shot to death, but unbeknownst to Hasslein, Zira's real baby was left under Armando's protection and she substituted a Zira gives birth to a male baby, but a manhunt ordered by Hasslein forces them to take refuge in an abandoned freighter. Cornelius and Zira flee the hospital and are aided by Dixon and Branton, who hide them in a traveling circus owned by the kindlyĪrmando (Ricardo Montalban). While visiting Zira in the hospital, Cornelius becomes enraged when he finds out what Hasslein has done and he accidentally kills a hospital aide. Hasslein recommends that Zira's baby be aborted and that both apes be sterilized, but the president (William Windom) rejects Hasslein's recommendation. Otto Hasslein (Eric Braeden) injects Zira with sodium pentothal and gets her to reveal the truth about mankind's future. However, after Zira reveals that she's pregnant, suspicious presidential advisor Dr. The two chimps then become national celebrities after stunning the country by appearing on television and speaking during a special hearing.
He's strangled to death by a gorilla, Zira and Cornelius talk to Dixon and Branton. Realizing that they'll be in danger if the authorities learn that Earth will one day be ruled by apes, Milo advises the others not to say anything, but after Dixon (Bradford Dillman) and Branton (Natalie Trundy). They land off the Southern California coast andĪre taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for observation, where they're befriended by Drs. Milo (Sal Mineo) launch a spacecraft and journey through a bend in time back to the year 1973. If you enjoy films that make you think you simply can’t dislike Planet of the Apes.Undaunted by the nuclear annihilation of the ape planet in BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970), the first sequel to PLANET OF THE APES (1968), Fox concocted episode number three, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which turned out to be a surprisingly enjoyable romp that's much moreĮntertaining than BENEATH, though not nearly on a par with the original.įleeing the nuclear destruction of Earth in the year 3978, chimp scientists Zira (Kim Hunter), her husband Cornelius (Roddy McDowall), and their friend Dr. So far I haven’t even been able to convince my friends to see it because there seems to be such a strong prejudice against it and some sort of entrenched belief it must be bad in fact it is one of the finest films I’ve seen and I can see why it is a classic. I strongly recommend to anyone who has not seen it. Excellent commentary on religion and just about everything else. Review: The film is philosophical, creative, absorbing and scary. 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. 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. Synopsis: Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Schaffner, and starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison… Sci-Fi film directed in 1968 by Franklin J.
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