Movie Poster 'Escape From
the Planet of the Apes'


by Paul Dehn


Meet baby Milo, who has Washington terrified

Astronaut George Taylor has destroyed the Earth of the future - but a spaceship containing three chimpanzees was able to escape just before the explosion. Hurled back in time through a strange warp, Doctor Milo, Doctor Zira and Cornelius land in the United States of America in the Twentieth Century, much to the astonishment of the military personnel who welcome their arrival. They are taken away for study, but after Milo is accidentally killed by a primitive gorilla, Zira and Cornelius reveal their true intelligence. Curiosity gives way to amazement and the two apes are hailed by the public hail as celebrities. However, when Zira then announces that she is pregnant with Cornelius’ child, the two apes suddenly find themselves in great danger, from a world that fears the future that they described really will come true…

Roddy McDowall (Cornelius), Kim Hunter (Doctor Zira), Bradford Dillman (Doctor Lewis Dixon), Natalie Trundy (Doctor Stephanie Branton / Stevie), Eric Braeden (Doctor Otto Hasslein [White House Senior Scientific Advisor]), William Windom (The President), Sal Mineo (Doctor Milo), Albert Salmi (E-1), Jason Evers (E-2), John Randolph (Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry), Harry Lauter (General Winthrop), M. Emmet Walsh (General Winthrop's Aide), Roy E. Glenn Sr. (Lawyer), Peter Forster (Cardinal), Norman Burton (Army Officer), William Woodson (Naval Officer), Tom Lowell (Orderly), Gene Whittington (Marine Captain), Donald Elson), (Curator), Bill Bonds (TV Newscaster ['Eyewitness News'] ), Army Archerd (Referee), James Bacon (General Faulkner), Ricardo Montalban (Armando), John Alderman (Marine Corporal)*, Joe Gray (Bodyguard)*, Robert Gunner (Landon [Archive Footage])*, Robert Nichols (Reporter)*, Stephen Roberts (General Brody)*, James Sikking (Control Room Officer)*, Paul Bradley (Unknown)*
*Uncredited

Directed by Don Taylor
Associate Producer Frank Capra Jr.
Produced by Arthur P. Jacobs
Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle


Released: 1971
Certificate: G [General Audiences](USA) / U (UK)
Runtime: 95 min

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