Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
- space marine
- bondage
- human evolution
- based on novel or book
- gorilla
- dystopia
- chimpanzee
- slavery
- time travel
- space travel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- James Whitmore — President of the Assembly
- James Daly — Dr. Honorious
- Linda Harrison — Nova
- Robert Gunner — Landon
- Lou Wagner — Lucius
- Woodrow Parfrey — Dr. Maximus
- Jeff Burton — Dodge
- Buck Kartalian — Julius
- Norman Burton — Hunt Leader
- Wright King — Dr. Galen
- Paul Lambert — Minister
- Directed
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Written
- Rod Serling, Michael Wilson
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 4,011 ratings
- Studio
- APJAC Productions, 20th Century Fox
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1968 · You’re herePlanet of the Apes
Where it starts.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
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 · 1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The closest of them.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
movie · 1970Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
movie · 1972
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
movie · 2024
Avatar
movie · 2009
Fantastic Planet
movie · 1973
2001: A Space Odyssey
movie · 1968Battle for the Planet of the Apes
movie · 1973