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Planet of the Apes featured a planet where apes ruled
and man was the beast. Charlton Heston stars as Colonel George
Taylor, an astronaut who crash lands on this planet and is taken
captive by the talking apes. He makes multiple attempts at escaping
and finally succeeds in the end. However, the discovery at the end
of the film breaks his little heart. Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter
star as Taylor's ape friends. The film not only won an Oscar for the
makeup but it launched a series of movies, a television series, an
animated Saturday morning cartoon and raked in countless dollars in
merchandising. The sequels just weren't the same quality because the
budget for each movie was basically cut in half with each successive
film. The first is not only the most original but by-far the best one
of the series. With the second best being Beneath the Planet of
the Apes, the second in the series. By the time Escape from
the Planet of the Apes (the third film in the series) was
released, you really longed to escape from the Planet of the Apes
movies. |
