Planet of the Apes franchise
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Planet of the Apes - Wikipedia
Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. The franchise is based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes, translated into English as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet.
Planet of the Apes - Wikipedia
Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. The franchise is based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes, translated into English as Planet of the Apes or Monkey Planet.
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- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusKim HunterMaurice EvansThe sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsRoddy McDowallKim HunterBradford DillmanThe world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallDon MurrayRicardo MontalbanIn a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallClaude AkinsNatalie TrundyTen years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.
- CreatorAnthony WilsonStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTwo astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTwo astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' superiority and puts their lives in danger.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonBurke and Virdon are faced with having to fight to the death when they are captured, and the Ape Prefect amuses himself by staging gladiator-style fights between the humans in his charge.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallJames NaughtonRon HarperWhen they are buried alive, underground, in an ancient San Francisco subway station during an earthquake, Burke and General Urko are forced to work together. Above ground, Galen and Virdon try to figure out a way to help Burke, with the assistance of several gorilla soldiers.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen Galen hurts his leg and can't travel, Virdon and Burke seek refuge in a farm till their friend recovers. The farm is operated by a gruff but decent ape named Polar, his wife Zantes, and their three children: older son Anto, younger son Remus, and daughter Jillia. Polar puts to work the two strangers who teach him about contour farming, windmill building, seed selection, etc. Polar soon accepts these changes but Anto resents the strangers, fearing they will hex a cow about to give birth. (Until the cow delivers a bull calf, Anto can't start a farm of his own.) When Virdon helps deliver not one but two bull calves, Anto is won over and names the calves Virdon and Burke.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonBurke and Virdon discover a holographic message from scientists from their own time, which might help them find out what happened to their world, while they are exploring the ruins of Oakland.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhile walking on an ocean beach with Galen, Virdon and Burke see a condemned man lashed to a raft in the water. They rescue him and carry him to a nearby cave but then an ape-on-patrol captures the two astronauts and takes them to his boss, Hurton. Hurton administers a fishing operation and he presses Virdon and Burke into service as fishermen after they pass a test by swimming under a sheet of flames. Trouble arises when Hurton's superior, Bandor, comes on an inspection tour, but the astronauts save the day by demonstrating how a net can catch more fish than spears. They credit this innovation to the once-condemned man, Gahto, who's then re-united with his daughter, Soma.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonGalen risks his freedom, and life by contacting his old sweetheart, Kira, when Virdon is seriously injured. Kira is now a talented, and forward thinking, surgeon; and Galen shares with her a forbidden book on human anatomy, that he and Burke stole from Dr. Zaius' home, with her.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonGalen, Virdon and Burke befriend a chimpanzee named Fauna, the blind daughter of a human friendly ape who was killed by a band of vigilante apes known as the Dragoons. Unaware that Burke is human, Fauna falls in love with him, as Galen and Virdon hunt down the Dragoons, only to discover that Fauna's uncle is one of them.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonVirdon agrees to race a chimpanzee Prefect's horse against Urkos best horse, in exchange for a condemned boy's freedom. Urko has never lost a race, but of course, as Virdon finds out, Urko doesn't play fair. Despite Urko's treachery and cheating, Virdon prevails in the end.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen Burke is captured by Urko's soldiers, he is forced to face two equally horrifying options: he can either be killed, outright, by Urko; or he can be used in a brainwashing experiment, being performed by a prominent ape doctor, using a forbidden (human) text on the subject.
- DirectorRalph SenenskyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTo foil the plans of a tyrannical gorilla who is trying to overthrow the chimpanzee prefect and gain control over a human farming district, Galen, Virdon and Burke risk an encounter with Urko. Urko and Burke are forced to work together again.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWith the help of an ape doctor, Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure for a malaria outbreak. They must succeed before Urko implements his own version of a cure: burning down the village with everyone in it.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen they are captured by a human community that provides human slaves to the apes, Virdon and Burke's survival is dependent on convincing their captors to rebel against the apes.
- DirectorJohn Meredyth LucasStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonUnaware that a chimpanzee scientist plans to use a human prisoner's flying machine for her own deadly purpose, Virdon, Burke and Galen help the man, Leuric, to build a hang glider.
- CreatorDavid H. DePatieFriz FrelengStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenWhile on a mission, three astronauts in their spaceship get caught in a time vortex. They return to Earth in the year 3979 A.D. and discover that intelligent apes are now the highest form of life.
- DirectorArnold LavenDon WeisStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonThis is not an original made-for-TV movie, but two episodes of the 1974 TV series Planet of the Apes (1974) edited together: Escape from Tomorrow (1974) and The Trap (1974).
- DirectorDon McDougallBernard McEveetyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonA television movie made from two segments of the cult TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), The Gladiators (1974), directed by Don McDougall and The Legacy (1974), directed by Bernard McEveety.
- DirectorDon McDougallJohn Meredyth LucasStarsFrank AletterJoanna BarnesWilliam BeckleyA television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Tomorrow's Tide (1974) and Up Above the World So High (1974).
- DirectorAlf KjellinArnold LavenStarsLynn BenischMartin E. BrooksNorman BurtonA television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), The Surgeon (1974) and The Interrogation (1974).