Updated: April 29, 2022

"A legendary masterpiece!"

Tagline: Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!

Plot Outline: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Plot Synopsis: Charlton Heston 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. Heston 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.

Actors: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner