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  • I never understood why they went into cryosleep when they only had an hour left of their mission, surely they should have been in cryosleep for the full 6 months :/ or was this right at the beginning of the mission?

    Also, why did they need to bring a woman along, as an 'eve', when they were expecting to land on earth with lots of women

  • But it does seem odd that on an alien planet that Taylor thought they were on should speak English and not a strange lanuage that I would expect them to speak.

  • I agree with powergirl. It was a movie with a promising beginning that went downhill from there. And something that really, really never made sense to me was the idea of sending three men and just one woman in a one- way trip to the stars. How do you think that would work out in real life?

  • @bus114 These were professional astronauts, not wild monkeys!

  • If only we could all learn a language that fast

  • To jbransletter04 Thanks for the comment, true he did have other things on his mind but for aliens from a different planet I just wondered why we should think they should all speak English or for that matter any other language of Earth.

  • @camcome1 It's because they listen to us, and then they learn the language because they are so intelligent. Also, the movie would be hard to follow if they didn't speak our language.

  • What always surprised me was that Taylor (Chalton Heston) didn't ask the obvious question. Why do the apes speak English?

  • @camcome1 I don't think is was the biggest of his concerns. Anyway, when the humans destroyed their civilization, English was the predominant international language, spoken by scientists, airline pilots, and anyone who had anything to do with international affairs. And I think it is the closest to Ape language, at least it looks like it is in my Ape-English dictionary (in my Tarzan book).

  • @camcome1 one other thing, having all the apes speak english probably made it easier on the makers of this film. would you really wanna read subtitles anyway?

  • Heston was a great man.

  • Awesome film. Heston really nailed this role.

  • Taylor [Charlton Heston] - tihe "seeker" - found what he was looking for. He "despised people" [Landon], and he told Landon that there has to be something better than man. Well, he found fratracidal mankind subjugated by the Apes, in a paradox involving the Apes replicating human cultural traits, like for example "the Lord made the Ape in his own image" etc, And, later, Taylor also wanted to know how Apes came to dominate man, and he found that out as well, with the movie's final scene.

  • I'd just finished reading the book not long before I saw the movie. The idea stands up after all this time. He went looking for something better and ended up back where he started after all of his efforts.

  • there is only one posthumous Charlton heston bio (Charlton Heston: An Incredible Life Revised Edition) at amazon.

  • Love the shot out the window at the sight of moving through space faster than it's radiation...everything's blobby. Also the crash sequence is really nice. After that, the ape stuff--don't care for that so much.

  • they really blew the budget on those seatbelts!

  • Does man stil make war with his brother? always has, always will

  • Actually, according to the ship's chronometer they launched in 1972 and crash land in 2012, ship's time. A trip of 40 years for the crew. Interesting. Now, we've taken that 40 year trip in reality. Take a look around. What do you think? What are your impressions of the future now that we've arrived?

  • Brilliant movie, brilliant actor! It's a shame that there is nothing of the original message left in the 2001 remake...

  • @BeyondLame Guns do kill as man creates guns

  • @KillSwitch 2 actually in Rise they mention launching a spaceship called the Icarus on the first manned mission to Mars and later they say it was lost in space I don't know if that was meant as a throwaway joke or a set up for a sequel so Rise could be both a prequel to the original or the start of a new series

  • The best beginning of the movie ever .

  • Heston had one hell of a voice.

  • Heton was a zionist shill.

    See..

    iamthewitness. c o m

  • Landon is a special and poignant case in Planet Of The Apes [1967]. Taylor tells Landon that "Landon wanted to live forever". And Taylor tells Landon that they're 20 Centuries away from the life that he [Landon] knew, and that time has wiped out everything he knew. So that when Dr. Zaius has Landon lobotomised, then this also indicates the fate of someone who would "live forever" - insofar as time would wipe out everything that person ever knew.

  • Man is the ultimate weapon, for he has the ability to kill. Not guns.

  • Deep respect for Mr. Heston.... a, actors actor and legendary star.

    I find it ironic he would ask a question like that "Does Man......still make war against his brother?" as he was once president of the NRA (1998-2003). Guns are still the primary weapon in wars.

  • @shakenama I thought the same thing. It's ironic how he's such a huge proponent of weapons with the message of the film being the exact opposite.

  • @shakenama Great movie quote, however, people have been killing each other long before guns were invented. In mondern warfare, much more sophisticated weapons are used than guns.

  • This is my favorite movie. Most of the statements he makes including this intro scene are powerful. It takes a critical thinker to appreciate such a movie. And of course we cant forget the POTA was adapted from the 1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle "La Planète des singes". This movie is a classic and stands the test of time. Not the insulting 2001 remake. Thanks for posting the clip and the commentary.

  • @DEK33019 One of my favorite movie lines, "If this is the best they can do, in six months we'll be running this place."

    I've jokingly used that line a lot in the last 40 years.

  • When I go to mars i will make sure to bring a pack of Laramie Extra Tar cigarettes. Now with more Nico-Glycerol

  • No remake can come close to the one with Charlton Heston.

  • Holy shit he is LEGENDARY!

  • would have made a better president than regan. LOL

  • the greatest speech in the history of cinema

    "I feel lonely!" .... I felt lonely

    brilliant

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  • god

  • Excellent movie. It was an insult to make another Planet of the Apes movie.

  • You can tell from Heston's face right before he goes to sleep that there still remains a shred of doubt inside of him about the fate of humanity. That man still does make war on his brother and it eventually leads to annihilation.

  • I don't really admire Heston for his political ties. I admire him because he is a damn good actor. Only he could do a monologue that's both compelling, fascinating, and make us think.

  • @Scoonertuna I feel the same way about Michael Douglas. His politics are diametrically opposed to mine, but good acting as good acting!!!

  • LOL smoking a cigar in a spaceship! And what was Casey Casum doing in one of the sleep pods?

  • @Robikus ???????????

  • Back to the clip on here. This was one of Heston post-Ben Hur roles...

  • @spectreagent Almost 10 years post. He did quite a few between Ben Hur and this one; about 14 films. I just found that he was acting in a movie called Genghis Khan (1992), but it was unfinished because of some kind of political turmoil in the country it was being filmed in. Too bad, I guess that we'll never get to see him in it.

  • @jbranstetter04 This picks up where the new, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," left off.

  • @starlightperkins330

    Um what are you nuts? This movie takes place almost a thousand years after the end of 'Ris of the Planet of the Apes'. They aren't really in the same universe, 'Rise' is more of a reboot and the key plot point of how the Humans die out is completely changed.

  • did it ever occur to any one you that shortly after the 'from my cold dead hands' quote he was diagnosed with alzeimers? how do you you know the national gun association wasn't a sympton of alzeimes?

  • @aidsbrigade national rifle association and the nra was formed in 1871 a little before his time

  • @getsomelead forgive my ignorance, however i didnt imply he started it. i was merely suggesting that involvement in the national rifle association could be a sympton of his illness

  • @aidsbrigade that is utterly preposterous, care to explain ?

  • @aidsbrigade

    Involvement in an organization that supports rights is a symptom of illness???

    How about his marching with Martin Luther King are you going to condemn him for that?

  • Hear no evil. see no evil, speak no evil.

  • a junkie? watch the film you divvy!

  • Now I'm gonna go boink that chick whose still in stasis, get down with my cigar (if ya know what I mean) and go to bed...

  • I guess this is what he volunteered for after he discovered that Soylent and Green was people.

  • I didn't realize he was a junkie in this movie.

  • One of the best opening scenes for a movie ever.

  • If Heston enjoying one last cigar before going into suspended animation screwed with your head, then the crew of "Alien" must have REALLY messed you up.

    Of course, y'all are probably too young to remember that during the entire Apollo project, when we sent men to the moon, every time they cut back to Mission Control every person in that control room had a cigarette, a cigar or a pipe sticking out of his face. The astronauts didn't smoke on the spacecraft, though.

  • @racookster I bet someone has smoked in space at least once- maybe a cosmonaut. I have ever have a shitload of money, I want to buy a ticket on one of those low-orbit commercial spaceships they're working on, bring a bong and a bag of weed, and become the first person to get high in space. And if they tell me I can't smoke because it will mess up all the equipment and stuff, I could always just bring brownies =)

  • Fuck YouTube his rotten medleys and his copyrights obtained with the blackmail. Bakshi may get it for it though because his cartoon the visual one and a sound withdrew it from this film effects.

  • You kind of wonder if it had all worked out as planned.  One woman and 3 guys!! There is a recipe for a bar fight!!

  • @roquefortfiles if this mission was to start a colony it would've failed 3 men and 1 women would'nt leave enough genetic diversity and would lead to inbreeding and ultimately sterility if there were two men and two women it might've worked better or maybe this was just to explore a new world not colonize one

  • Even at the time, with the Apollo I fire a recent memory, everyone knew smoking in a spacecraft was abnormal. (Though obviously not fatal in Taylor's spacecraft which must have regular nitrogen-oxygen air.) Taylor would reason that contaminating the air supply or filters is minimized because almost all the time is in suspended animation in sealed compartments. There's no need for rules because he's left the world behind forever. Who would they send on a one-way mission? Well who could they get?

  • after humans used guns to kill themselves off the apes took over.

  • @MusicJunkiez69 You have to watch the whole series to get the specifics of our downfall as a species. In a nutshell, after we nuked ourselves, another species (apes, intesad of the usual cockroaches) moved in. The neat thing about POA is it's like G. Orwell's "Animal Farm": livestock liberate themselves from farmers, but end up acting like humans-- segregating, robbing, and killing themselves. The apes act similarly, and finally destroy Earth in a military blunder in BPOA. Fascinating sci-fi!

  • POA's a classic with 1 pitfall--the finale. Until then, the writers understood advanced physics' theory of countless dimensions/realities. So Taylor's reaction to the Statue of Liberty is wrong. He accepts being in another world/dimension similiar to Earth's(blue sky, water) but with talking apes in control. So how does he know HIS reality's humanity destroyed itself? He shouldn't have been as emotional, if at all. Makes for 1 memorable movie mind-f@!k, but with a Liberty-sized logic loophole!

  • god bless this flim .

  • brilliant movie scene and everything but for some reason i can never get over the fact that hes smoking in a spacecraft

  • remake was crap

  • Excellent film it's a shame they don't make them like this any more!

  • I watched this film and it is truly brilliant. Undoubtedly, one of my favourite movie quotes: 'Tell me, though. Does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother? Keep his neighbor's children starving', there was, and still is so much truth in this- more is said than spoken. Fantastic film.

  • hippie

  • i don't get the smoking part. when this movie came out in 1968 the apollo program was in full swing. they should have know how unrealistic it is.

  • @webmail111 he seemed to be distorting his face like an ape while puffing on the cigarette was that the reason

  • what a fantastic movie, and what a fantastic book from which it came (though the book is very different).  Let's also give Gulliver Travel's by Jonathan Swift (which strongly influenced Pierre Boulle's book) it's due as well.

  • Is Yvette Mimieux 2:31 to be seen? Stolen from the time machine? 2:41 HAL 9000 with a BLU eye, over the pillow! Sweet dreams? Of Polyphem ß Udeis (Nobody)? What did he see outside, a Bowman in his capsule? A bowman, who´s Arm(is)strong enaugh to rule his Darth(es)? Take an injection an sleep, sleep very deep! Chhhh-----chhhh-----C.H.® a breath of the absolute. STOP! What the HAL 9000 is he dreaming? Vader killing- STOP
  • Is Yvette Mimieux 2:31 to be seen? Stolen from the time machine?

    2:41 HAL 9000 with a BLU eye, over the pillow! Sweet dreams?

    Of Polyphem ß Udeis (Nobody)?

    What did he see outside, a Bowman in his capsule? A bowman, who´s

    Arm(is)strong enaugh to rule his Darth(es)?

    Take an injection an sleep, sleep very deep!

    Chhhh-----chhhh-----C.H.®

    STOP! What the HAL 9000 is he dreaming?

    Vader killing-

    STOP

  • The woman at 2:31: is it Yviette Mimieux? Stolen from the time machine?

    HAL 9000, 2:41, here to be seen with a BLUE eye, following where?

    Watching Taylor in his survival bed / tank, whispering thoughts and----

    I always thought HAL 9000 was gay, but what´s going on there?

    I´m in sorrow!

    The colours of town of Wuppertal are blue and orange, the town Heroin and Aspirin came from.

    Outside the spaceship a psychedelic voodoo, but Bowman isn´t to be seen in his capsule.

    ?

    Charlton Heston®

  • funny

  • Classic Chuck...before he went insane and became a Republican.  In 1960 he marches with Martin Luther King and a vocal supporter of civil rights, in 1980 he's sharing martini's with Reagan railing against affirmative action. Then by 2000 an xenophobic corporate hack and new face of the American Nazi movement.....oops., I mean, Conservative movement. Of course, I like to think he was just acting the last 20 years.

  • He was very good in this movie. I like the original Planet of the apes much better than the 2001 version.

    Have a nice day.

  • In this day and age, they'd never kill off the female astronaut in Act I.

  • Now that is brilliant musical que from Jerry Goldsmith has Taylor goes into deep sleep a chilling score.

  • 1968, times when smoking a cigar in a spaceship was OK.

  • @Laurence91 LOL I don’t think its ever been allowed in manned space flight.

  • Tucks his half smoked cigar into his space suit for when he fancies a smoke in a few light years - classic

  • @fishybishbash smoke em if ya got em

  • He got his answer at the end of the movie, how ironic.

  • Splendid!! Well done, Mr. Heston. What a Thespian you were. The best of the lot. I shall follow you, Sir. Indeed I shall.

    ---jovan rameau

  • Smoking in a space ship. Hilarious...

  • @mpersico I wasn't until just the last 15 years or so that smoking was allowed just about anywhere. I'm old enough to remember the days when I walked into a restaurant or boarded an airplane and they asked me "Smoking or non-smoking?"

  • @starwarsrebel2006 - Oh, you don't have to explain to me - I'm 45 years old. :-)

  • @mpersico Lol, ok. You're older than me. I'm 43.:)

  • I can remember my mom smoking in the local Safeway andputting them out on the floor. Or better yet cigarette machines just about every where you went. As a fifteen year old you could walk up and for 45cts chosse from about 10 to fifteen brands.When you flew on a commercial jet you hung out in the back and smoked and drank. It was a swinging time man!

  • Heston was a great actor.No one could deliver lines the way he did.

  • We miss you, Chuck!

  • Why are all the primitive humans white?

  • @wheelinthesky300 P.O.A. is supposed to be more of a fable or satire than pure science fiction. You can say more about humanity's problems when you have talking monkeys saying it than you can in a straight forward discourse. The Apes represent minorities; Taylor, Nova, and the cavemen as the majority. Only now, Heston, et al. are experiencing the racism "his breed" used to inflict. An excellent book on all this is Eric Greene's "Planet of the Apes as American Myth."

  • Another theory I have, is that when Taylor shoots up and goes to sleep, he doesn't wake up, because the whole movie is a dream. Its the only way to explain why he doesn't question why the Apes speak english, and why he doesn't question whether he is back on earth, with humans, albeit muted. Just my $0.06.

  • Interesting how Cornelius mirrors Taylor's grim observation of mankind ages later when he reads in the Sacred Scrolls of the "beast man."

  • formerly cape arbuckle

  • I'm even willing to give in to whatever science sci wants to invent, but the goal still needs to make sense. Of course on the flip side, why Chuck never questioned whether he might be on earth when the monkeys spoke English is a thornier subject we dare not raise.  That's where the remake screwed up the most - since you can't rediscover a shock ending, Wahlberg should have thought this is earth, and then out of terrified denial spent the film trying to prove himself wrong, we were no better...

  • Great film that was never bettered and what an opening!

  • Not a bad speech for an icon!!!! He makes sense!!!

  • Cigarettes in space? Wouldn't they blow up in an all-oxygen environment?

  • Flawless cinema.

  • Amazing movie makes you REALLY thing

  • What sort of lunatic planning went into this mission? Billions, at least, I'd even guess with 1970's technology this mission, if fully committed to by the US say in a world without a Vietnam war could cost a trillion dollars, and the basic psychology screeners sign off on one hot blonde, and three dudes? And not just three dudes, three macho a f - ASTRONAUTS?  Even if two of them are gay, tis iffy. That's a funny way to watch it - Taylor has the hots for Stewart, Landon and Dodge a couple?

  • @hawksrob1961 i often wondered about that but i think the answer is it was just never supposed to be a one-way mission? if it was then 3 guys to 1 girl is just asking for trouble. unless they were all, y'now..a lil' bit freaky?. we never did see the aft of that ship. maybe there was a big hot tub back there.....

    anyhow, they had much bigger problems caused i just noticed the build quality on that time display panel for the first time....no wonder they crashed.

    it's amazing they even took off.

  • @hawksrob1961 --- the impression I received was that Dr. Hasslein's theory was simply that: a theory. Taylor and the others were volunteers for a suspended animation mission which might, or might not have, resulted in them ending up far in the future. In remembering the dialogue between Taylor and Landon, I get the impression that ending up in the future was a possibility they were expecting.

  • @hawksrob1961 i agree with the impracticalness of such a program/mission. not to mention how such a technology of near ftl flight could have happened.

  • @hawksrob1961 When this was filming, in 1967, anybody would have known this mission technologically could not have launched in 1972.

    From the vantage point of 1967, it should have been set in the mid-1980s at the earliest.

  • yeah the new planet of the apes was horrrrible...they will never be able to remake these old movies even close to how they were....kellys heros, dirty dozen, great escape, planet of the apes, magnificent 7, the good the bad and the ugly, almost all of them

  • Classic

  • Michael Moore was famous for badmouthing everyone. Too me Heston was his best in these films, Planet of the Apes, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, Omega Man and Soilent Green. I was disapointed in the Apes remake. Its proof that Burton shouldn't monkey around with a classic. Lol, punn intended

  • @hulkster46a yeah, really. The New Planet of the Apes sucked. Burton didn't understand the messages behind the original, and that's why it wasn't the same movie. He turned it into something totally different that didn't work at all.

  • @subsamadhi Agreed, Burton has his own vision. I thought the makeup was good, but the storylined sucked. They should of had the humans in the future, like in the original, non-speaking. and in rags.

  • @hulkster46a The should have been naked, actually, with the apes not speaking English, and then my oh my we're talking reimagining...

  • @hawksrob1961 LOL, yeah if they had women running around naked, Especially the female lead, and had the humans mute, except for the Walberg, then it might of been a better movie. Probly get  R rated in theaters , or even an unrated version on dvd, probly be an X rating.

  • @hulkster46a In many primitive, stone age cultures, people wore clothes.

  • @wheelinthesky300 True, I guess the apes clothed them in the original Apes movies. It was never told where they got their clothes. If the humans had the restricted intelligence of animals, they wouldn't of been able too stitch any clothes.lol

  • @hulkster46a This raises a good question.

    Are the humans here the same humans as us?

    i.e., do they have the same powers of reasoning?

    If so, that would explain how they made clothes.

    Or have they de-evolved, such that they are regressed from Cro-Magnon?

    If I'm not mistaken, Nova learns to talk in the Boullle book, and same in

    Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

    So my conclusion is they are in fact same as us, but at the most primitive point of societal development.

  • @wheelinthesky300 I would of liked too of seen Paul Dehn's version/script for Battle, he had Ceasar more ruthless. He was still king over the apes, but he would have his fellow apes cut out the tongues of humans, so they couldn't speak or revolt. It was decided then that Jacobs wanted too do a more kid friendly apes picture.

  • @subsamadhi burton did say it was supposed to be a "re-imagining" didn't he?

    but i agree with you - he was either ignorant or arrogant and re-imagined something that really doesn't need any damn re-imagining - and then went ahead and re-imagined it into a big pile of stinking horses crap - and i wish i'd imagined THAT.

  • @biteitoff the reason it didn't work was because he used some laughably ridiculous "slavery" story behind his new version. It also didn't work because the reason the apes thought less of humans in the original was that they were mute and basically acting like apes do. In the new version, humans had speech so at the very least apes would have seen them as intelligent in some respects. Burton needs to stick to his own material.

  • a great man...not really...being a gun enthusiast doesn't make you great. not that he was bad...just not great either

  • What a great man he was. World is always in need of his kinds.

  • When you're the best actor of all time, getting slammed by someone as insignificant as Michael Moore, a fat assed political documentary filmmaker, is water under the bridge. If you remember Heston more for "from my cold, dead hands" than for his brilliant film roles, I don't care about your politics. You don't belong anywhere near a great film.

  • I admire him for both his great acting and his defending of our Constitution. I can do both, as he did both.

  • @jbranstetter04 Actually, He didn't get slammed for the "cold, dead hands" comment so much as for saying America's problems with crime stem from its racial diversity. Heston was a compelling actor and made some great films in the 70's, but yes, actors make lousy spokespeople for political causes. It's silly to hold a man who speaks other people's words for a living accountable for a lousy interview.

  • @surfer53 you think Heston is the best actor of all time? Since when? Brando kicks Heston's ass any day of the week.

  • @surfer53 The great are often toppled by small things; Alexander with wine, Ceasar with the bite of more than twenty daggers, Hegel on the crapper from cholera, the mighty martians with their giant loupes and black smoke from bacteria, Martin LutherKing and Harvey Milk stung by small insginificant bullets, Superman from falling from horse back and Bob Hebb from the flatulence of a single heartbeat.

  • @surfer53 - I agree and I saw the film Bowling For Columbine and he kept saying Mr. Heston should apologize for the murder of a six year girl by a boy the same age. Blame the mother for not locking the gun.

  • @surfer53 he's most definitely not the best actor of all time. He's not the best in almost any category you can think of. Not a bad actor mind you, but he's not the best by far. Brando beats him any day of the week.

  • @surfer53 I gotta ask you a question, with respect to you. But, doesnt that film has a meaning that says the exact opposite to your arms laws? I mean...mankind that nearly extinct itself, but you guys want to keep arms and more arms...and imperialise the world because you think you were most advanced? Doesnt that film show you that as long as there are weapons, they will be fired?? even if you try to reach peace, weapons will always oppose it. There is no good use for them.

  • @Karudu Interesting point, but if you notice in the film they are not extinct and the humans that are left are enslaved by those with arms because they had none.

    There will always be weapons, and when governments & criminals have them and people don't people die.

    History has proven it time and time again. I used to be pro gun control then I took a long hard look at the statistics. Well armed populations have the lowest violent crime statistics no matter where you look.

  • @surfer53 if you dont care about the politics why would you mention the Michael Moore interview at all

  • @surfer53 Absolutely. Even many who do not agree with him politically admire him: Whoopi Goldberg for instance regards him as a great actor and an absolute gentleman. His epics are awesome, but this opening scene is one I really enjoy, especially what he says at the end.

  • charlton heston was awesome in these classic films. R.I.P

  • I'm sorry to question such a great preformance but, what was the point of the experement? to find out what mankind was like in the future? if that's the case how are you supposed to get back? and if you couldn't get back how would nasa know if you had succeded? it seems like a lot of money to waist on something that seems to have no practical purpose.

  • @SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6 Taylor's original mission is not explained.

    They went deep space, i.e., far from earth, no doubt to other solar systems.

    They may have been there to make first hand observations.

  • Quote from Charleton Heston, "Planet of the Apes' offered an acting role, Taylor, the misanthrope who is physically fleeing earth because of his contempt for man as a generally unsatisfactory animal. He finds himself thrust into the ironic situation of being the only reasoning human being in the anthropoid society, where he is forced to defend the homo sapiens whom he despises. This is a very interesting acting situation".

    One of the best movies ever made. Heston the original Sci-Fi actor.

  • miss u chuck. you were a true gent. michael moore eat shit you fat ignorant piece of crap. x

  • was michael moore famous for badmouthing mr heston?

  • MANKIND!

  • R.I.P Charles! I may not have known you that well but you are a great actor!

  • Fantastic, thanks for posting this.

  • McDowell will always be associated with being an ape, he was one of the great ones. If he had lived, I bet he would of been in the 2001 movie. I thought the makeup looked great, but the story needed work. It should of had Walberg as the only speaking human. And make it more PG-13, and introduce more adult themes. The new movie just didn't have the shock value of the 1968 original. And having the humans as mute animals would of made for a better movie. My viewpoint anyway, lol

  • @TheMostCleverAlias yes it is.

  • You can attribute the excellent ending of this sci-fi classic to the Twilight Zone's Rod Serling, who worked closely with producer Arthur P Jacobs and director Franklin J Schaffner, and helped write the script. Check out the book "Planet of the Apes Revisited" by Joseph Russo - it's all there, covers both the story of the original classic and the subsequent sequels!

  • @ursa41 To be exact, the opening trek of the astronauts,

    their personalities and relationships with eachother,

    and the twist ending

    is very similar to the TZ episode "I Shot An Arrow Into The Air".

  • The ending of this great movie always gets me no matter how many times I've seen it over the years....the irony always hits you square in the jaw and brutally answers Heston's question in a world turned completely upside down.

  • Remember back in 1968 there weren't any smoking restrictions. You could smoke just about anywhere. In offices, banks, hospitals, restaurants, airplanes, pretty much anywhere. My Dad told me the university students used to smoke in class and the professor would be smoking while giving his lecture.

  • THAT was true acting. Lets see you do THAT Marky Mark!

  • @19671903 If they were going to remake POTA, which they should never have attempted, the last person I would have cast was Marky Mark.

    I was right on that one.

  • They should have never made sequels, but you can't blame them, they had all these monkey getups laying around, they couldn't just throw them away. The sequels did punch alot of meal tickets for everyone though.

  • Charlton Heston was the greatest actor ever lived!!!

  • Actually I thought the ending was the best bit.

    (spoiler for those few who've never seen the movie) When he finally discovers where his, and what happened to the Earth. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!

  • he had a great scene in waynes world

  • this is my favorite movie of all times!

  • Too bad Stewart didn't make it through the trip but Nova was a good compromise. All I can say, Heston was a true" Omega Man."

  • yeah. I wish Stewart survived.

  • @rd2sactown I wish she had more acting roles.

    In fact, Landon and Dodge never did much appear in anything else.

  • i was an *extra walk on in this movie..

    .jokin. i wish 8))

  • We've hardly aged at all