Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- spacecraft
- dystopia
- chimpanzee
- pacifism
- time travel
- politician
- sequel
- cage
- tease
- caving
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Roddy McDowall
Cornelius
Kim Hunter
Dr. Zira
Bradford Dillman
Dr. Lewis Dixon
Natalie Trundy
Dr. Stephanie 'Stevie' Branton
- Eric Braeden — Dr. Otto Hasslein
- William Windom — The President
- Sal Mineo — Dr. Milo
- Albert Salmi — E-1
- Jason Evers — E-2
- John Randolph — Committee Chairman
- Harry Lauter — General Winthrop
- M. Emmet Walsh — Aide
- Roy Glenn — Lawyer (as Roy E. Glenn Sr.)
- Peter Forster — Cardinal
- Norman Burton — Army Officer
- Directed
- Don Taylor
- Written
- Paul Dehn
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 1,272 ratings
- Studio
- APJAC Productions, 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1968Planet of the Apes
Where it starts.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · You’re here
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
- movie · 1968
Planet of the Apes
The closest of them.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
movie · 1972Beneath the Planet of the Apes
movie · 1970
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
movie · 2011
Return to the Planet of the Apes
tv · 1975
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
movie · 2024
War for the Planet of the Apes
movie · 2017
Project X
movie · 1987