Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writers: Michael Wilson, Rod Serling, Pierre Boulle
Stars: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars, 6 wins & 4 nominations total
Duration: 1h 52m
Taylor 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. Taylor 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.
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.
