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There are more classic Planet of the Apes sequels: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - Really good and shows how it all began Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
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Dr. Zaius is one of the greatest characters ever created. Zaius gives the truth to Taylor (and the audience) but since Zaius is the antagonist, Taylor (and the audience) reject's it. Its a clever spin on the 'unreliable narrator'.
I hadnt seen this movie in years but immediately I recognized Dr Zaius' voice with its thriilling Shakespearean force no one else could project better than Maurice Evans, who also played Maurice, Samantha's warlock father on Bewitched.
This is no sequel/prequel,it's the original.A brilliant script by Rod Serling of "Twilight Zone" fame,filled with satire about racism,creationism VS evolution and other issues.
@@eb2681 However, if she wants to watch Charlton Heston in “Soylent Green” soon, it would help if a lot of showoff 70’s-pop-culturequoting, um, people would politely shut their mouths.
It ALWAYS gives me chills when Taylor finds the Statue of Liberty on the coast, and the fact that it came as a complete surprise to you Mary doubled my chills!
Taylor : "Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. [screaming] You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!!" last epic lines...
If you listen carefully in 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes', there is a TV news story about Taylor and his team being launched! According to the Lawgiver's sacred scrolls 'Man alone among the primates kills for sport' - and yet the gorillas are clearly doing that very thing... Exteriors were shot on location in Utah , Arizona, and California, not in the studio
One of the best endings ever. This is one of those endings where for decades you're allowed one punch to the crotch of anyone who spoils it for anyone who hasn't seen it. That's not even a joke. But Charlton Heston was one of the greatest actors of all time: The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Soylent Green, Midway, The Omega Man, are all must see films because of him. Plus he has my all time favorite cameo in a movie in Wayne's World 2.
It wasn’t til I was in my early teens and got lent a copy a TRUE LIES that I ever saw a film with Heston in it, was watching with my dad and dad pointed him out, when I commented I didn’t know who that was, he made a point the next weekend of going to the video store (yes I’m that ol), and hired copies of Ben hour and Ten Commandments
When I was a kid in the 70s The Ten Commandments was played on tv every holiday and everyone watch it. And talk about endings Soylent Green! That ending is just as famous. I was in the supermarket last year and I could hear 2 people talking about what Beyond Meat was made from. I told them it was made from Soylent Green. Hahaha. When I was 9 in 1973 I saw The Omega Man and Billy Jack on a double-feature in the theater. I didn't blink once!
Believe it or not, the ape costumes were considered quite good at the time (pre-cgi of course....movie viewers didn't expect "real looking" as they do today). So, you can now see why "2001" was and still is considered perhaps the biggest achievement of practical effects ever put to film. No cgi, yet it looks as real as most films made 50 years later. Even the ape costumes used in 2001 were incredible.
This is a "classic" not "cult classic". Cult classic implies that is a a small but dedicated fanbase. Which this movie may have a smaller fanbase now, but it was an instant hit when it came out if im not mistaken. Just fyi. Idk if anyone said so yet.
"Cult" is often used on those products which don't make a great success when they are showed for the first time, and they gain interest and success later. The truth is the term just concern a product which enters in the pop culture, no matter the quality and the budget.
@@LightMovies i dont understand what you are trying to say. You didnt agree or disagree and the way you worded that is confusing slightly (starting from "the truth is...")
18:30 the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, joke done by the orangutans in the story was an improvisation that the actors did when they realize that they were three orangutans sitting in a row. The actors came up with that joke and the director was so shocked and laughed at it that he had to put in the movie.
The Naked Jungle is also a decent Heston flick - concerning a white colonizer in S.America whom receives a 'mail-order bride' and in addition to that drama must survive being in the path of an Army Ant (Marabunta) colony.
Some other 70s movies with Charlton Heston include Earthquake, Two Minute Warning, Midway, and Airport 1975. He received the Ten Commandments in the movie of the same name. On the TV show The Colbys he was busy breaking them.
I would also recommend "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965) a movie about the High Renaissance artist Michelangelo (and I think I will say nothing more, not to spoil the movie)
There are many black and white films that are classics as well. "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is one of the great films in the 20th century.
Taylor is so contemptuous of the state of mankind that he, literally, runs away from it and is then placed in the ironic position of defending the exact same mankind he chose to escape from.
Taylor at the start of the film seems to take an outsider's view of humanity, as if he's a rebel and above all his race's follies. That's an easy position to take when your at the top of the ladder. As Dr. Zaius points out, in this world he and his kind are at the bottom.
@@HuntingViolets -- Good in everything.. From his voice role as VINCENT (the robot in Disney's "The Black Hole") to his TV appearances as "The Devil" on Fantasy Island or as a snotty inheritor on Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"..
The fact that you were misinformed about this movie being a sequel, played well at the end, when the reveal that they were on Earth all along was a surprise. Most people I know, have seen that last scene from some meme and they are expecting it from the beginning of the movie, ruining the experience.
Actually, although it was made way before any of the other films, it is a sequel. But in the original storyline, the reason the apes became more intelligent was that Cornelius and Zera escape back to earth in the 1970s, where she gives birth to Caesar. Creating a sort of loop. In the new storyline, Caesar is produced through genetic tampering.
@@lisaspikes4291 @Cosmo Kramer So the original trilogy of Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope, Episode V - Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI - Return of the Jedi are sequels?
@@lisaspikes4291 A prequel is a "pre-sequel", the predecessor is not a sequel, it's just the original. Sequels and prequels are both necessarily made after the predecessor.
This was the original Apes film. The makeup was startling for 1968, and won multiple awards. It's definitely a great film! You might also check out the original sequels: Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970, also with Charlton Heston) Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973). I grew up with all of these. The 1974 Planet Of The Apes TV show is also well worth a watch. It has great actors and good scripts. For other Charlton Heston films, you might like The Omega Man (1971), Antony And Cleopatra (1972) or Soylent Green (1973).
Pierre Boulle, the man who wrote the original book was by his own admission kicking himself when he saw the ending. He was absolutely jealous of rod serling and his screenplay because in his book he had not thought of that ending. I am really shocked that you made no mention of the message being conveyed by the ending at the end. What I learned in the subsequent years is that this film did have an impact on public opinion regarding the need for nuclear arms reduction.
4:50 You're killing me with all this talk about it being filmed in the studio, when it is clearly filmed on location on desert land in the southwest United States!
I can see how someone who had never seen those places, in real life or pictures, might think they had been created by set designers. That part of Arizona and Utah is rather otherworldly. If they were making this movie today they would use CGI landscapes.
"Climate change" yes it does and as done for millennia (even pre AD) the Sun always had that power over it's tiny wee neighbor ......go save a Polar bear if makes you feel better .....won't be hard as more than ever unlike "climate events" which in a bit of down phase the moment ....till the next sun cycle comes along , Don't be side tracked by Solar cycles as just very minor day to day events ....But top marks on ...ME ME ME Flag waving ..
As others have commented, this is not a sequel. It's the original film which was subsequently remade and followed by their own sequels. The screenplay was co-written by Rod Serling, creator of the original "Twilight Zone" series, which is consistent with the morality lesson and twist ending. The "apes" vary according to their positions in their society - chimps, gorillas, orangutans. Naturally you wouldn't recognize Roddy McDowell as Cornelius but he had a long career as an actor going back to when he was a child and continuing for years after this film.
The cinematography in this is amazing. The fact that you thought it was shot in a studio, is baffling. Calling it a cult film is inaccurate. This movie was enjoyed by a huge audience. I'm also confused as to why you refer to it as a sequel.
The modern movies are set up so that they could conceivably be prequels to this film, even though this film already had prequels. Though, the farther forward the modern films go, the harder that becomes to justify.
@@johnsensebe3153 what you say is true, but a sequel is something made AFTER something else, so by definition it cannot be a sequel. Initially I shared @Movie Vigilante's confusion, but since Mary obviously knows this film was made in the 60s, I just chalk it up to her using the word incorrectly.
I'm very glad that she enjoyed this classic from back in the day. I don't care if she wants to view it as a sequel. However, criticizing the cinematography as "a little dodgy at times" was puzzling since so much of it was shot outdoors as a "location shoot." And the cinematography of those authentic desert locations was actually quite beautiful.
@@garymcgregor5951 sequels and prequels can all be made before or after. They're not dictated by creation time but by chronological order. These films still aren't sequels to the newer trilogy but it can be seen how that'd make sense.
I AGREE... IF she's interested, the sequels are: BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (more action, less satire) ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET.. CONQUEST OF THE PLANET.. BATTLE FOR THE PLANET...
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I verified it and the contemporary ones are a reboot not related to the originals.
yeah, I was going to say this too. The newer Apes movies are a reimaging, not a sequel, or even a prequel. The original is so badass, and I do think it holds up quite well all these years later. The ape costumes are great, and the actors under that latex were phenomenal. I don't recall the sequels as much, but I think I liked them as a kid.
I'm actually fine with them redoing the sequels to the original planet of the apes because they weren't that good. But I thought the remake of this movie was a travesty. It was such a shallow movie. It had none of the implied social commentary.
The original ship crash was fascinating for 1968. It seemed as if the ship was supposed to make an automated landing but the computer cannot recognize the landscape and it keeps trying to adjust over and over until the ship finally hits the water. This alone hinted the planet was either not Earth or was a radically different Earth.
"This isn't even earth." LOL. I was 8 or 9 years old when this came out and it was probably the first movie with a deeper meaning that I got. Whenever a new sequel came out my buddies and I would go off the the Saturday matinee and see it. At one point, they were showing all 5 movies in one showing at it was the prefect baby sitter for parents that wanted to just dump their kids off at the movies all day. The lead actor is Charlton Heston. Best known for this movie, The Ten Commandments where he played Moses and Ben Hur and being big time gun activist. But also another fun movie called Soylent Green. But Ben Hur is a best of all time type of movie that was made in the late 50's. Ben Hur is basically a well to do Roman that gets turned into a slave and porcedes to fight in tournaments and all other sorts of stuff as he tries to get his old life back. The Ten Commandments title speaks for itself. Both our epic all time great movies. But I prefer the Ten Commandments a little more than Ben Hurr.
One of if not Charlton Heston’s best movie was “The Ten Commandments” a true classic all be it a bit long. (Will need to split a review of that one.) Others are “Ben Hur” “The Greatest Show On Earth” also the apocalyptic films “The Omega Man” and “Soylent Green”. The James Franco Planet of the Apes films were not a prequel or sequel but a complete remake/redesign of the series.
The shock ending was not in the original novel, it was added by Rod Serling (best known for The Twilight Zone series)... You need to go through the other 4 films of this particular series: "Beneath", "Escape", "Conquest" (there is an "R" rated Director's Cut with a different ending on Blu-Ray), and then "Battle"... Each time they made a new one, the studio slashed the budget. By the time of "Battle", it was very low budget
@@raphaelperry8159 The novel was French, but it was set in space, a family on a small ship using solar sails discovers a manuscript of basically the same story, with the surprise ending being that the reader discovers at the end it's a family of apes who dismiss the story as fantastic because the idea of a talking human is too unbelievable. FWIW, I think the movie ending is more impactful.
I'm inclined to agree. The original ending (where he gets back to his ship and flies all the way back to France then the engineer who steps out onto the runway "was an ape") feels too reminiscent of the French racist panic about African immigrants that was prevalent at the time.
@@submandave1125 I think Raphael means the end of Ulysse's* manuscript which the "family on a small ship" finds floating in space. He takes off from France and lands again in France. And then takes off from France again, in order to have written the manuscript and then put it in the space-bottle.
The follow up Beneath the Planet of the apes is worth watching and Escape. The other two suffer from decreasing budgets but do bring the series practically full circle.
I think ALL the original sequels are worth watching, and personally I think, in spite of the lower budget, Conquest was actually the best out of the whole series.
It startles me when someone says they've never seen Charlton Heston before. He was in the top tier of leading men in Hollywood for fifty years. He made over a hundred movies. He was the go to actor for blockbuster movies for three decades. Even in smaller movies, he had a screen presence that was larger than life.
Startled that you've become an older fart? Me too. How the HELL could someone not have heard of Charleton Heston, Just the rifle association,in itself, was enough to make him popular. The movie earthquake in 74.
That's because the younger audience don't watch older films. They just look for the latest blockbusters. Unless they go to film school and learn about older films which they teach.
Another factor is the hatred that Hollywood developed for Charlton Heston when he became a Pro-2nd Amendment Activists. In my opinion, that was the beginning of the 'Cancel Culture' - I will leave it at that.
You just must watch all the sequels from the seventies for this one. Especially the next one, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, it's one of the weirdest yet fascinating movies ever made, it also has Charlton Heston.
In terms of recent events I highly recommend Charlton Heston's 'Soylent Green (the year 2022)'. Apart from the hilariously 70s costume design the story is becoming frightfully real !
Definitely. I've rewatched it in Blu Ray several times in last 5 years and it resonates more and more. Especially the focus on government and monopolistic corporations working in tandem for complete control of a passive , mass and impoverished population. Edward G. Robinson gave a great last performance in Soylent Green.
You have just earned some serious respect points from me for watching this movie and being very respecting the production values of its time, I have to tell you the PLANET OF THE APES was it STAR WARS of it time, hugely popular around the world, won Numerous awards for the ape costumes and special effects. Recommend you watch the 2001 version now that you've seen this. Charlton Heston was one of Hollywoods greatest actors and has played in some truly epic movies, Ben Hur, Moses in the Ten Commandments and a truly great sci-fi movie Soylent Green. I personally love the Epic Movies and would absolutely love for you to discover them.
So impressed that you chose this film, a forgotten gem! More impressed that you enjoyed it, just goes to show, so long as the story is believable and the acting is top notch, it doesn't matter if the costumes and backgrounds are not perfect.
The prosthetics and costumes are still fantastic considering how old this movie is. The facial expressions allowed through this medium is quite impressive.
@@dipsydoodle7988 Yeah. A lot of people forget that this was cutting edge FX technology in 1968. It's not quite as high end as what we have now but it was literally the absolute best they could do back then and it blew people's minds.
@@jeremyfrost2636 This was no where near cutting edge. This movie was made on the cheap. 2001 was cutting edge. The Special effects in the Wizard of Oz are better than this.
2:50 - I'm reminded of a friend of mine in New Jersey who was trapped in his car by flash floods from hurricane Ida last week. The car went under; if he hadn't already had a window open (since all the electronics failed when the car started flooding) he'd still be in it. He had a thing to use for breaking glass but it was unreachable in the back seat.
I love all the planet of the apes movies. Including the tv series. Even have collectables all over my shelf. I hope you continue with the series. Beneath the planet of the apes brings everyone back. Including Charlton Heston in an extended cameo.
I remember seeing this movie when it premiered in '68. Yeah, I'm an "old guy." The entire movie blew my mind. The ending...well... Rod Serling had something to do with it.
it was already mentioned that Roddy McDowall played Cornelius. He played in numerous movies, tv shows, and Broadway. Usually as a supportive actor but always stood out. He also was lead in the three of the Planet of Apes movies in the 1970s.
one of his co-stars Sheryl Young who was in Soylent Green with him as a love interest, joked to Heston while not filming that he could part the waters in the shower scene they shared together
Fun note: in 1968, I was in middle school and I got to go see 2001 a space Odyssey first run in the theater. It was double billed with Ben Hur which I also got to see in the theater. It was pretty amazing. You really do need to see Ben Hur.
@@danielmorency2242 yes, when he said 'my god....I'm back...I'm home....all the time...my god....we finally really did it...you maniacs!!..you blew it up!!!...damn you!!...damn you all to hell!!!... I wish I could go back to 1968 to witness that reveal.... because who knows what would've gone through the minds of those back in 1968 who watched this on the big screen
@@alasdairmacleod7769 Well, as one who saw it in 1968, I can tell you it absolutely blew minds. The filmmakers had faked us out, and had Taylor give evidence at the beginning of the film that they had traveled a great distance through space. No wonder that the screenplay was co-written by Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone TV series.
Classics to watch: Patton, Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The French Connection, Deliverance, The Deer Hunter, the original and remake of Cape Fear, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sting, The Guns of Navarone, Bridge On the River Kwai, the list is endless.
Finally somebody has requested One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! I've been making comments on different reactors to watch it and more people need to ask for it. That is a truly a classic and I believe it did win best picture at the Academy Awards and Jack Nicholson won best actor.
You should read the book this movie is based off by Pierre Boulle. In it, he actually is on another planet but the book contains a couple twist endings of its own. One difference is that the main character was never injured in his throat, he just didn’t know the apes language, so the apes assumed the human animal was just imitating them with gibberish when he spoke to them in English (or French). There’s also a very comical scene in the ape equivalent of a stock market.
Cornelius was played by famous actor Roddy McDowell you'll find him in a lot of old films, and has a massive filmography.. He was still acting into the 1980s.
I got to meet Charlton Heston about 30 years ago at a local library. He and his wife Lydia gave a brief presentation on the joys and experiences of reading classic literature to children. He even did some acting for us. He was a real gentleman. Just want to point out that when this movie came out, it was the makeup that was the costar of the movie. People were very impressed with how the movie turned out with the unique makeup used in the film. John Chambers, who I also got to meet many years ago, created the makeup.
The Time machine was made the year I was born, and it is still miles ahead of all the crappy sequels. The Great Escape and Cool Hand Luke are both great films
Yes I agree with you! The younger reactors need to get acquainted with the magnificent Steve McQueen and Paul Newman I prefer Steve McQueen but that's just me but it's a shame that no one ever talks about Steve McQueen or Paul Newman.
The plot twist was spoiled in every release of this movie since the theatrical. The DVD cover, VHS cover, the thumbnail on streaming services...all of them have the Statue of Liberty on them. I'm surprised it's not the TH-cam Movies thumbnail. Congratulations on living under that rock. It was worth living under.
Planet of the Apes, the 1968 film, had a screenplay by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, and Michael Wilson, who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the era of McCarthyism.
Another great Charlton Heston movie is "Omega Man" a remake of Vincent Price's "Last Man on Earth" and later remade as "I Am Legend" with Will Smith. By the way, the ending scene with the Statue of Liberty was so iconic it was parodied in Mel Brooks "Space Balls"
You caught me a bit by surprise, Mary, when you referred to Jerry Goldsmith score as "vintage." It was cutting edge then and still rivals contemporary soundtracks. Best. Leo.
Not a studio. The lake and desert were Lake Powell and the Village was on the Fox Ranch near Malibu and a few shots on the Paramount Ranch near Agoura, CA.
I saw the first two out of order. I lived in a small town and they were years late with new releases. I saw Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) at a drive in theatre with my cousins when we visited Victoria for our grandparents' 50th. I don't remember when I finally saw this one, probably 1973 when we moved to Victoria. I was only ten in 1970, but I still fell in love with Linda Harrison, who played Nova.
The planet of the apes starring Charlton Heston was all filmed on locations throughout America. Only one scene was shot on a soundstage and that's toward the end of the film.
Charlton Heston was one of the greatest actors in Hollywood. With such classics as the 10 Commandments, The Omega Man, midway, as you mentioned Ben Hur, Airport 1975, the Mountain men and so many more.
I would also recommend another WW2 classic inspired by a true story, The Dirty Dozen starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland and many others.
My father took me as a 10yo to this movie in 1968 when it was first run. It started a trend as we would go to the drive-in to see the next 4 movies in the series.
OMG, this brings me so far back..... I was around 9yrs old when this was in theaters. Saw it a couple of years later on tv movie of the week.....something. I don't think there is a movie that has Charlton Heston in it that sux. Seriously...even Omega Man.....the re-make was Will Smith's...I Am Legend. Ben Her, The Ten Commandments, 1976's Mid Way...just to name a few. The ending hit everyone I heard in the theaters........a lot of gasps and omg's were heard.
"Planet of the Apes" was the first film of the series. After it was a hit, 20th Century Fox began making the sequels "Beneath," "Escape to" (which takes us to Earth still controlled by humans), "Conquest of," and "Battle for." Heston and Stephen Boyd are great in "Ben-Hur" and you should see him in the Orson Welles film "Touch of Evil" which is a real loop-de-loop of a movie, starting with its opening shot. This came out around Easter 1968 and every sci-fi fan at my elementary school was talking about it for weeks afterward. Kim Hunter, who played Zira, was the original "Stella" from "A Streetcar Named Desire." Roddy McDowell, Cornelius, was a child star at MGM in the 40s who was great friends with Elizabeth Taylor. This is a terrific movie, and back in the 60s, there were real subtexts with ideas of racism and evolution in this material.
This is one of the huge problems with prequals for first time viewers esp for such an iconic movie. The revolutionary shock iconic ending is tragically inevitably diluted.
@@michaelgonzalez6295 that's not the point. The recent movie still screws up the huge surprise of this one.. Dawn even has an onscreen shot of Heatons spaceflight.
@@mikegandalf Sorry, I got focused on Mary saying and you writing prequels and my nostrils flared. You are right though. That is always the risk with remakes and reboots.
@@mikegandalf I had a theory that there are two different timelines the reboot prequel timeline, and the original sequel timeline. When Escape from Planet of the Apes happened the reboot timeline was erased creating this new timeline.
The Andy Serkis Apes movies ARE NOT prequels to this, they are a separate continuity. You need to watch the rest of the original movies and you'll see that they have a totally different sequence of events that led to apes becoming the dominant species which the new trilogy can't possibly fit into, no matter how much they try to ret-con it.
One of the judges in Taylor’s trial is played by James Whitmore, seen almost 30 years later as Brooks, the prison librarian in The Shawshank Redemption.
Finish the saga! I remember watching them on the local station out of Pittsburgh. They’d do a monster movie theme for the week: Dracula, werewolves, zombies, Planet of the Apes, etc. I loved it!
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You will love the original 'Planet of the Apes' film series. I still have the boxset from 2008. One of my top 5 favourite franchises
There are more classic Planet of the Apes sequels:
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - Really good and shows how it all began
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
@@papa_xan always preferred Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
The Statue of Liberty/Mega Maid reference at the end of Spaceballs should make sense now.
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Dr. Zaius is one of the greatest characters ever created. Zaius gives the truth to Taylor (and the audience) but since Zaius is the antagonist, Taylor (and the audience) reject's it. Its a clever spin on the 'unreliable narrator'.
I hadnt seen this movie in years but immediately I recognized Dr Zaius' voice with its thriilling Shakespearean force no one else could project better than Maurice Evans, who also played Maurice, Samantha's warlock father on Bewitched.
@@sean---the-other-one Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius - Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius .....
@@jamesrawlins735 oh, oh oh Dr Zaius
@@pitmatix1457 Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
I found it funny that he was judging humanity for their misdeeds while being blind to the fact that his own people were following in their footsteps.
This is no sequel/prequel,it's the original.A brilliant script by Rod Serling of "Twilight Zone" fame,filled with satire about racism,creationism VS evolution and other issues.
And it was his idea for the twist ending. Very "Twilight Zone..."
Its not a sequel. Nor a prequel. Its a Seprequel! ©️ 😁 I've invented a new word! Now where's my royalties? 😁
Serling gave a lot of credit to his Co Writer but the ending was retained from one of his earlier drafts...
@@mehmetcakir2347 written by Pierre Boulle, author of “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
@@x_trio_3_po333 The joy of knowing you invented a new word.😀😀
The statue of liberty to end the movie IS such a powerful ending & symbolizing the movies point..Charlton Heston is a legend
As the sun slowly sets in the East... (Because it was filmed in CA pretending to be NY)
You hire Rod Serling for biting social allegory....you get a Twilight Zone ending.
At least someone wasn't spoiled by the poster or cover art this time.
@@eb2681 However, if she wants to watch Charlton Heston in “Soylent Green” soon, it would help if a lot of showoff 70’s-pop-culturequoting, um, people would politely shut their mouths.
@@ericjanssen394 Yeah don't let anyone tell her about the Statue of Liberty at the end of that movie please!😁
It ALWAYS gives me chills when Taylor finds the Statue of Liberty on the coast, and the fact that it came as a complete surprise to you Mary doubled my chills!
That ending really screwed me up as a kid.
@@Carandini The good old days, when Bleak was what we had for Fun.
Yeah.
Kudos to who made the original advertising poster with the statue on it.
Not spoiling at all.
@@Embur12 Hey, it's that thing racists say when you are sad about losing.
??? but us & him knew he was on Earth the whole time!
If you want to watch more Charlton Heston's movies, I suggest :
- Ben-Hur
- The Ten Commandments
- Soylent Green
- The Omega Man
Ben hur one of the greatest movies ever made ,Def in my top 10
A remake of Ben Hur came out recently and was a flop. Some classics cannot be remade.
55 Days at Peking, Grey Lady Down and Earthquake are other Charleston Heston films you could check out.
The Omega Man rules. Not sure if Mary could handle all the 70s cheese though.
Even though he's not the main guy in it, I'd throw in Unforgiven
Taylor : "Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it.
[screaming]
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!!"
last epic lines...
Yeah, but kind of late for him to be bitchin about the end of the civilized human world. 😁
@@x_trio_3_po333 That's his arc. He gave two shits before but now he realizes how precious life is... and relationships. Relying and trusting others.
@@jjkhawaiian That's a very good observation. Quite the contrast to his deeply held cyncism at the beginning of the film. 🙂
If you listen carefully in 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes', there is a TV news story about Taylor and his team being launched! According to the Lawgiver's sacred scrolls 'Man alone among the primates kills for sport' - and yet the gorillas are clearly doing that very thing... Exteriors were shot on location in Utah , Arizona, and California, not in the studio
And Caesar is putting together a Statue of Liberty figure.
Even though they seemed to really be enjoying their work it could be argued that the gorillas were just exterminating crop pests.
@@waynestanley498 The trophy hunters photo?
The new films are not the exact same time line their a parellel time line with similair events but diferent origin
Wow. I never noticed that. That's awesome.
One of the best endings ever. This is one of those endings where for decades you're allowed one punch to the crotch of anyone who spoils it for anyone who hasn't seen it. That's not even a joke. But Charlton Heston was one of the greatest actors of all time: The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Soylent Green, Midway, The Omega Man, are all must see films because of him. Plus he has my all time favorite cameo in a movie in Wayne's World 2.
absolute iconic ending
It wasn’t til I was in my early teens and got lent a copy a TRUE LIES that I ever saw a film with Heston in it, was watching with my dad and dad pointed him out, when I commented I didn’t know who that was, he made a point the next weekend of going to the video store (yes I’m that ol), and hired copies of Ben hour and Ten Commandments
When I was a kid in the 70s The Ten Commandments was played on tv every holiday and everyone watch it. And talk about endings Soylent Green! That ending is just as famous. I was in the supermarket last year and I could hear 2 people talking about what Beyond Meat was made from. I told them it was made from Soylent Green. Hahaha. When I was 9 in 1973 I saw The Omega Man and Billy Jack on a double-feature in the theater. I didn't blink once!
+1 for Soylent Green. Very much a 70's movie, but I saw it for the first time a few years ago and it holds up.
@@reesebn38 I think ABC still shows The Ten Commandments every Easter don't they? (And wow! does it look great in HD!)
Believe it or not, the ape costumes were considered quite good at the time (pre-cgi of course....movie viewers didn't expect "real looking" as they do today). So, you can now see why "2001" was and still is considered perhaps the biggest achievement of practical effects ever put to film. No cgi, yet it looks as real as most films made 50 years later. Even the ape costumes used in 2001 were incredible.
This is a "classic" not "cult classic". Cult classic implies that is a a small but dedicated fanbase. Which this movie may have a smaller fanbase now, but it was an instant hit when it came out if im not mistaken. Just fyi. Idk if anyone said so yet.
It was a huge hit. It was Star Wars before Star Wars in terms of pop culture of the era.
"Cult" is often used on those products which don't make a great success when they are showed for the first time, and they gain interest and success later. The truth is the term just concern a product which enters in the pop culture, no matter the quality and the budget.
@@LightMovies i dont understand what you are trying to say. You didnt agree or disagree and the way you worded that is confusing slightly (starting from "the truth is...")
@@LightMovies By definition, if it enters the mainstream pop culture, it's not really a 'cult film' any more. Now it's a 'pop film'.
18:30 the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, joke done by the orangutans in the story was an improvisation that the actors did when they realize that they were three orangutans sitting in a row. The actors came up with that joke and the director was so shocked and laughed at it that he had to put in the movie.
Actually, he originally begged them not to do it after doing it multiple takes, and he got them to do one without... but they won him over in the end
The ape costume were great for the time. Nominated for an academy award for costume design
Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments are both great, but long. Soilent Green is another Charles Heston classic
And the original "Omega Man."
The Naked Jungle is also a decent Heston flick - concerning a white colonizer in S.America whom receives a 'mail-order bride' and in addition to that drama must survive being in the path of an Army Ant (Marabunta) colony.
Some other 70s movies with Charlton Heston include Earthquake, Two Minute Warning, Midway, and Airport 1975.
He received the Ten Commandments in the movie of the same name. On the TV show The Colbys he was busy breaking them.
Also EL CID.
I would also recommend "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965) a movie about the High Renaissance artist Michelangelo (and I think I will say nothing more, not to spoil the movie)
There are many black and white films that are classics as well. "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is one of the great films in the 20th century.
Taylor is so contemptuous of the state of mankind that he, literally, runs away from it and is then placed in the ironic position of defending the exact same mankind he chose to escape from.
Taylor at the start of the film seems to take an outsider's view of humanity, as if he's a rebel and above all his race's follies. That's an easy position to take when your at the top of the ladder. As Dr. Zaius points out, in this world he and his kind are at the bottom.
Roddy McDowall played Cornelius.. Quite an amazing actor with a long list of credits under his belt and a very distinctive voice.
Loved his voice. Saw him on stage in Dial M for Murder.
@@HuntingViolets -- Good in everything.. From his voice role as VINCENT (the robot in Disney's "The Black Hole") to his TV appearances as "The Devil" on Fantasy Island or as a snotty inheritor on Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"..
@@davidr1050 don't forget fantastic journey tv series
@@dolphinsrr -- Was he? I don't recall that one.. But he was also in the "Tales of the Gold Monkey" series here in the states.
The fact that you were misinformed about this movie being a sequel, played well at the end, when the reveal that they were on Earth all along was a surprise. Most people I know, have seen that last scene from some meme and they are expecting it from the beginning of the movie, ruining the experience.
It was a sequel. In so far as the recent ones are prequels.
Actually, although it was made way before any of the other films, it is a sequel.
But in the original storyline, the reason the apes became more intelligent was that Cornelius and Zera escape back to earth in the 1970s, where she gives birth to Caesar. Creating a sort of loop.
In the new storyline, Caesar is produced through genetic tampering.
@@lisaspikes4291 @Cosmo Kramer
So the original trilogy of Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope, Episode V - Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI - Return of the Jedi are sequels?
@@lisaspikes4291 A prequel is a "pre-sequel", the predecessor is not a sequel, it's just the original. Sequels and prequels are both necessarily made after the predecessor.
The recent jacket (for either a DVD or a Video Rental) Displayed/Spoiled the last scene for anybody who hadn't seen it ! Corporate Morons...
This was the original Apes film. The makeup was startling for 1968, and won multiple awards. It's definitely a great film! You might also check out the original sequels:
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970, also with Charlton Heston)
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971)
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972)
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973). I grew up with all of these. The 1974 Planet Of The Apes TV show is also well worth a watch. It has great actors and good scripts.
For other Charlton Heston films, you might like The Omega Man (1971), Antony And Cleopatra (1972) or Soylent Green (1973).
@@RockBrentwoodthe Conspiracy book looks very interesting!
Pierre Boulle, the man who wrote the original book was by his own admission kicking himself when he saw the ending. He was absolutely jealous of rod serling and his screenplay because in his book he had not thought of that ending. I am really shocked that you made no mention of the message being conveyed by the ending at the end. What I learned in the subsequent years is that this film did have an impact on public opinion regarding the need for nuclear arms reduction.
4:50 You're killing me with all this talk about it being filmed in the studio, when it is clearly filmed on location on desert land in the southwest United States!
Yeah, sad really.
I can see how someone who had never seen those places, in real life or pictures, might think they had been created by set designers. That part of Arizona and Utah is rather otherworldly. If they were making this movie today they would use CGI landscapes.
haha. yeah, she was probably high af. she also said, "2,000 years have passed. Everyone they know is probably dead."
"He will make a desert of your land..." - That's kind a cool as today that could refer to nuclear devastation, or even climate change.
"Climate change" yes it does and as done for millennia (even pre AD) the Sun always had that power over it's tiny wee neighbor ......go save a Polar bear if makes you feel better .....won't be hard as more than ever unlike "climate events" which in a bit of down phase the moment ....till the next sun cycle comes along , Don't be side tracked by Solar cycles as just very minor day to day events ....But top marks on ...ME ME ME Flag waving ..
@@tonypate9174 You're screaming into a void. Have fun.
Nuclear devastation was what the Lawgiver was referring to. Remember, this movie was made during the Cold War.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Yes, but the clever part of the script is to make it timeless and applicable to future threats by not being specific.
During the age of dinosaurs CO2 levels were double of today's. And animals thrived. Plants had lots of CO2 to breath.
24:10 Well, there are eyeglasses, drinking glasses, magnifying glasses, spyglasses...
Exactly.
The movie won an Oscar for best sound design. And this is the first film. Not a sequel.
As others have commented, this is not a sequel. It's the original film which was subsequently remade and followed by their own sequels. The screenplay was co-written by Rod Serling, creator of the original "Twilight Zone" series, which is consistent with the morality lesson and twist ending. The "apes" vary according to their positions in their society - chimps, gorillas, orangutans. Naturally you wouldn't recognize Roddy McDowell as Cornelius but he had a long career as an actor going back to when he was a child and continuing for years after this film.
Kudos to you for reacting to the OG. IMO this is one of the greatest films out there and literally no one even knows it exists these days. You rock!
This movie was long before the silly-assed notions of wanting to hold gangsters in high esteem.
The cinematography in this is amazing. The fact that you thought it was shot in a studio, is baffling. Calling it a cult film is inaccurate. This movie was enjoyed by a huge audience. I'm also confused as to why you refer to it as a sequel.
The modern movies are set up so that they could conceivably be prequels to this film, even though this film already had prequels. Though, the farther forward the modern films go, the harder that becomes to justify.
@@johnsensebe3153 what you say is true, but a sequel is something made AFTER something else, so by definition it cannot be a sequel. Initially I shared @Movie Vigilante's confusion, but since Mary obviously knows this film was made in the 60s, I just chalk it up to her using the word incorrectly.
@@garymcgregor5951 Yes. I'm just explaining where the confusion comes from.
I'm very glad that she enjoyed this classic from back in the day. I don't care if she wants to view it as a sequel. However, criticizing the cinematography as "a little dodgy at times" was puzzling since so much of it was shot outdoors as a "location shoot." And the cinematography of those authentic desert locations was actually quite beautiful.
@@garymcgregor5951 sequels and prequels can all be made before or after. They're not dictated by creation time but by chronological order. These films still aren't sequels to the newer trilogy but it can be seen how that'd make sense.
The recent trilogy of Apes movies isn't exactly a prequel, but more of a re-imagining of movies 3-5 in the original series.
I AGREE...
IF she's interested, the sequels are:
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (more action, less satire)
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET..
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET..
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET...
I verified it and the contemporary ones are a reboot not related to the originals.
@ they are related to the originals in the sense that they use the same characters and basic ideas, but they take it in a very different direction.
yeah, I was going to say this too. The newer Apes movies are a reimaging, not a sequel, or even a prequel. The original is so badass, and I do think it holds up quite well all these years later. The ape costumes are great, and the actors under that latex were phenomenal. I don't recall the sequels as much, but I think I liked them as a kid.
I'm actually fine with them redoing the sequels to the original planet of the apes because they weren't that good. But I thought the remake of this movie was a travesty. It was such a shallow movie. It had none of the implied social commentary.
"The Ten Commandments" was epic. He played Moses.
My mother and I used to watch it every year during Easter. RIP mom.
It's even popular with Muslims though there is much Hollywoodization in it.
The original ship crash was fascinating for 1968. It seemed as if the ship was supposed to make an automated landing but the computer cannot recognize the landscape and it keeps trying to adjust over and over until the ship finally hits the water. This alone hinted the planet was either not Earth or was a radically different Earth.
"This isn't even earth." LOL. I was 8 or 9 years old when this came out and it was probably the first movie with a deeper meaning that I got. Whenever a new sequel came out my buddies and I would go off the the Saturday matinee and see it. At one point, they were showing all 5 movies in one showing at it was the prefect baby sitter for parents that wanted to just dump their kids off at the movies all day.
The lead actor is Charlton Heston. Best known for this movie, The Ten Commandments where he played Moses and Ben Hur and being big time gun activist. But also another fun movie called Soylent Green. But Ben Hur is a best of all time type of movie that was made in the late 50's. Ben Hur is basically a well to do Roman that gets turned into a slave and porcedes to fight in tournaments and all other sorts of stuff as he tries to get his old life back. The Ten Commandments title speaks for itself. Both our epic all time great movies. But I prefer the Ten Commandments a little more than Ben Hurr.
One of if not Charlton Heston’s best movie was “The Ten Commandments” a true classic all be it a bit long. (Will need to split a review of that one.) Others are “Ben Hur” “The Greatest Show On Earth” also the apocalyptic films “The Omega Man” and “Soylent Green”.
The James Franco Planet of the Apes films were not a prequel or sequel but a complete remake/redesign of the series.
All those movies are classics and you should watch them. And yes, Mary keeps saying sequel but this is the original that all the others are based on.
I agree with everything you just wrote! 😊
Meanwhile the cat is in the background sharpening its claws. I'd be more worried about their evolution. They already rule the world.
If Red Dwarf is anything to go by, I'd say we have little to worry about.
I’m just glad that they don’t have opposable thumbs! We’d really be in trouble then!
The shock ending was not in the original novel, it was added by Rod Serling (best known for The Twilight Zone series)... You need to go through the other 4 films of this particular series: "Beneath", "Escape", "Conquest" (there is an "R" rated Director's Cut with a different ending on Blu-Ray), and then "Battle"... Each time they made a new one, the studio slashed the budget. By the time of "Battle", it was very low budget
To be fair the original ending in the novel is set not in America but in France.
@@raphaelperry8159 The novel was French, but it was set in space, a family on a small ship using solar sails discovers a manuscript of basically the same story, with the surprise ending being that the reader discovers at the end it's a family of apes who dismiss the story as fantastic because the idea of a talking human is too unbelievable. FWIW, I think the movie ending is more impactful.
I'm inclined to agree. The original ending (where he gets back to his ship and flies all the way back to France then the engineer who steps out onto the runway "was an ape") feels too reminiscent of the French racist panic about African immigrants that was prevalent at the time.
@@submandave1125 I think Raphael means the end of Ulysse's* manuscript which the "family on a small ship" finds floating in space. He takes off from France and lands again in France. And then takes off from France again, in order to have written the manuscript and then put it in the space-bottle.
The follow up Beneath the Planet of the apes is worth watching and Escape. The other two suffer from decreasing budgets but do bring the series practically full circle.
I think ALL the original sequels are worth watching, and personally I think, in spite of the lower budget, Conquest was actually the best out of the whole series.
@@KorAsek453 I agree. Conquest had a darker and more violent tone and was very well done imo.
@@KorAsek453 Conquest is terrible. Nothing makes sense and the BS overdub ending kills any chance it had of not being a complete artistic failure.
It startles me when someone says they've never seen Charlton Heston before. He was in the top tier of leading men in Hollywood for fifty years. He made over a hundred movies. He was the go to actor for blockbuster movies for three decades. Even in smaller movies, he had a screen presence that was larger than life.
Startled that you've become an older fart? Me too. How the HELL could someone not have heard of Charleton Heston, Just the rifle association,in itself, was enough to make him popular. The movie earthquake in 74.
That's because the younger audience don't watch older films. They just look for the latest blockbusters. Unless they go to film school and learn about older films which they teach.
Another factor is the hatred that Hollywood developed for Charlton Heston when he became a Pro-2nd Amendment Activists. In my opinion, that was the beginning of the 'Cancel Culture' - I will leave it at that.
You just must watch all the sequels from the seventies for this one. Especially the next one, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, it's one of the weirdest yet fascinating movies ever made, it also has Charlton Heston.
The preview version of “Conquest…” packs quite a punch now. I’m sorry the studio chickened out and toned it down.
Watching the modern movies before seeing this one is a crime against film.
They are just a fancy reboot. It's not connected. No matter what other people say. A sequel to battle I would have perfered.
In terms of recent events I highly recommend Charlton Heston's 'Soylent Green (the year 2022)'.
Apart from the hilariously 70s costume design the story is becoming frightfully real !
Another really fine SF film by Heston.
And The Omega Man.
Definitely. I've rewatched it in Blu Ray several times in last 5 years and it resonates more and more. Especially the focus on government and monopolistic corporations working in tandem for complete control of a passive , mass and impoverished population. Edward G. Robinson gave a great last performance in Soylent Green.
Yes! 'Soylent Green' ... just in time for 2022!
I second that.
My favorite Charlton Heston movie is Touch of Evil. Worth it for the opening shot (which goes on forever).
Great movie
and Orson Wells
Excellent recommendation-for those who want to do a deeper dive into classic cinema.
Of course you need the revised version based on Orson Welles' notes, not the original 1958 theatrical cut.
You have just earned some serious respect points from me for watching this movie and being very respecting the production values of its time, I have to tell you the PLANET OF THE APES was it STAR WARS of it time, hugely popular around the world, won Numerous awards for the ape costumes and special effects.
Recommend you watch the 2001 version now that you've seen this.
Charlton Heston was one of Hollywoods greatest actors and has played in some truly epic movies, Ben Hur, Moses in the Ten Commandments and a truly great sci-fi movie Soylent Green.
I personally love the Epic Movies and would absolutely love for you to discover them.
Forget the 2001 version. She should contuine with the sequels
Fun fact: the actor playing the lead judge is played by James Whitmore, better known as Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption.
So impressed that you chose this film, a forgotten gem! More impressed that you enjoyed it, just goes to show, so long as the story is believable and the acting is top notch, it doesn't matter if the costumes and backgrounds are not perfect.
The prosthetics and costumes are still fantastic considering how old this movie is. The facial expressions allowed through this medium is quite impressive.
@@dipsydoodle7988 Yeah. A lot of people forget that this was cutting edge FX technology in 1968. It's not quite as high end as what we have now but it was literally the absolute best they could do back then and it blew people's minds.
I still think those costumes are great even by todays standards. I never think of the characters as humans in costumes when I watch those movies.
Forgotten my eye. It's more in the zeitgeist than most hit movies made within the past decade.
@@jeremyfrost2636 This was no where near cutting edge. This movie was made on the cheap. 2001 was cutting edge. The Special effects in the Wizard of Oz are better than this.
2:50 - I'm reminded of a friend of mine in New Jersey who was trapped in his car by flash floods from hurricane Ida last week. The car went under; if he hadn't already had a window open (since all the electronics failed when the car started flooding) he'd still be in it. He had a thing to use for breaking glass but it was unreachable in the back seat.
Scary as *ell.
I love all the planet of the apes movies. Including the tv series. Even have collectables all over my shelf. I hope you continue with the series. Beneath the planet of the apes brings everyone back. Including Charlton Heston in an extended cameo.
Yeah, he made them change the ending of that movie. But without it we wouldn't have had Escape and that is one of my favorites.
I remember seeing this movie when it premiered in '68. Yeah, I'm an "old guy." The entire movie blew my mind. The ending...well... Rod Serling had something to do with it.
I'm old too. I seen it when it was first released. I remember the gasp from the audience when we seen the statue of liberty.i was 11 then.
Absolutely need to watch Heston in “Soylent Green”. It’s a Must See Movie
Ya know, after the events of the movie, perhaps he was in soylent green...
Go in blind. It's another mind blowing shocker ending!
A true classic. Heston & Edward G. Robinson together again in Robinson's last role. Amazing.
The opening scenes in the desert were not filmed in the studio, they were filmed in the desert around Lake Powell, Arizona.
This is actually the 1st film release-wise. The others are sequels or prequels...or remakes
it was already mentioned that Roddy McDowall played Cornelius. He played in numerous movies, tv shows, and Broadway. Usually as a supportive actor but always stood out. He also was lead in the three of the Planet of Apes movies in the 1970s.
The Ten Commandments is another good Charlton Heston film. It always surprises me when there are people who haven't seen it.
I'll always remember Heston the most as Moses from "The Ten Commandments"
For me, it's Ben-Hur.
one of his co-stars Sheryl Young who was in Soylent Green with him as a love interest, joked to Heston while not filming that he could part the waters in the shower scene they shared together
That, and as Captain Matt Garth in Midway.
Sensurround! 😄
Fun note: in 1968, I was in middle school and I got to go see 2001 a space Odyssey first run in the theater. It was double billed with Ben Hur which I also got to see in the theater. It was pretty amazing. You really do need to see Ben Hur.
The ending with the statue of liberty is and always will remain one of the most cinematic shock plot twist endings ever
Indeed... That end literally blew people's minds when they saw this...
@@danielmorency2242 yes, when he said 'my god....I'm back...I'm home....all the time...my god....we finally really did it...you maniacs!!..you blew it up!!!...damn you!!...damn you all to hell!!!...
I wish I could go back to 1968 to witness that reveal.... because who knows what would've gone through the minds of those back in 1968 who watched this on the big screen
@@alasdairmacleod7769 Well, as one who saw it in 1968, I can tell you it absolutely blew minds. The filmmakers had faked us out, and had Taylor give evidence at the beginning of the film that they had traveled a great distance through space. No wonder that the screenplay was co-written by Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone TV series.
When will liberals tear down the Statue of Liberty? Eventually, they will get around to it.
Twist ending supplied by Rod Serling.
this was the first of the Planet of the Apes ( OG ) movie and it was co written by Rod Serling the guy who created the Twilight Zone
Check out Heston in 1971's The Omega Man -- It's an earlier rendering of I Am Legend, and an absolute joy.
I prefer last man on earth but omega mans fine I guess
Classics to watch: Patton, Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The French Connection, Deliverance, The Deer Hunter, the original and remake of Cape Fear, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sting, The Guns of Navarone, Bridge On the River Kwai, the list is endless.
You missed Lawrence of Arabia .... The greatest Location Epic ever made!
Finally somebody has requested One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! I've been making comments on different reactors to watch it and more people need to ask for it. That is a truly a classic and I believe it did win best picture at the Academy Awards and Jack Nicholson won best actor.
@@giannag4581 It won the Big 5 awards, Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and screenplay.
IT was also nominated for an academy award for music
It's not a sequel, it's the original classic.
You should read the book this movie is based off by Pierre Boulle. In it, he actually is on another planet but the book contains a couple twist endings of its own. One difference is that the main character was never injured in his throat, he just didn’t know the apes language, so the apes assumed the human animal was just imitating them with gibberish when he spoke to them in English (or French). There’s also a very comical scene in the ape equivalent of a stock market.
Cornelius was played by famous actor Roddy McDowell you'll find him in a lot of old films, and has a massive filmography.. He was still acting into the 1980s.
I got to meet Charlton Heston about 30 years ago at a local library. He and his wife Lydia gave a brief presentation on the joys and experiences of reading classic literature to children. He even did some acting for us. He was a real gentleman. Just want to point out that when this movie came out, it was the makeup that was the costar of the movie. People were very impressed with how the movie turned out with the unique makeup used in the film. John Chambers, who I also got to meet many years ago, created the makeup.
great classics in my opinion are the great escape, cool hand Luke, and the time machine .
The Time machine was made the year I was born, and it is still miles ahead of all the crappy sequels. The Great Escape and Cool Hand Luke are both great films
Yes I agree with you! The younger reactors need to get acquainted with the magnificent Steve McQueen and Paul Newman I prefer Steve McQueen but that's just me but it's a shame that no one ever talks about Steve McQueen or Paul Newman.
I can never watch this movie ever again without seeing Troy McLure as the human singing to the tune of "Amadeus" 😅😅😅
Loved it when you saw the final reveal.
The plot twist was spoiled in every release of this movie since the theatrical. The DVD cover, VHS cover, the thumbnail on streaming services...all of them have the Statue of Liberty on them. I'm surprised it's not the TH-cam Movies thumbnail. Congratulations on living under that rock. It was worth living under.
I first watched all of these movies in the early 90’s as a kid and was surprised at how much I enjoyed them
Planet of the Apes, the 1968 film, had a screenplay by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, and Michael Wilson, who was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the era of McCarthyism.
Great movie, i enjoy this one more than the more recent Planet of the Apes movies 🙈🙉🐵
Another great Charlton Heston movie is "Omega Man" a remake of Vincent Price's "Last Man on Earth" and later remade as "I Am Legend" with Will Smith.
By the way, the ending scene with the Statue of Liberty was so iconic it was parodied in Mel Brooks "Space Balls"
For being decades ago, the was an amazing sci-fi movie when it came out.
It would still be an amazing sci fi movie it was released today. Doesn't matter how much time passes, this movie will always stand up.
You caught me a bit by surprise, Mary, when you referred to Jerry Goldsmith score as "vintage." It was cutting edge then and still rivals contemporary soundtracks. Best. Leo.
It's one of his best soundtracks.
Definitely check out some Alfred Hitchcock films. Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho are some of his most well-known films.
Rear Window!!
Particularly Vertigo and Psycho, they should get more reactions.
The Birds! Don't forget The Birds!!
Not a studio. The lake and desert were Lake Powell and the Village was on the Fox Ranch near Malibu and a few shots on the Paramount Ranch near Agoura, CA.
You should watch all of these in order--We are ALL on board, mama! You WILL LOVE them :)
A great classic movie is "L'awrence of Arabia"!
It is one of my all time favorites 😁👍
I saw the first two out of order. I lived in a small town and they were years late with new releases. I saw Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) at a drive in theatre with my cousins when we visited Victoria for our grandparents' 50th. I don't remember when I finally saw this one, probably 1973 when we moved to Victoria. I was only ten in 1970, but I still fell in love with Linda Harrison, who played Nova.
The planet of the apes starring Charlton Heston was all filmed on locations throughout America. Only one scene was shot on a soundstage and that's toward the end of the film.
Here's the thing: If you continue through the series, you'll see it really has nothing to do with the recent films.
the recent films are a re-imagining of movies 3-5.
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 Precisely.
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 but done a million times better.
We saw this a year after it premiered in our neighborhood theater . Scared us when the astronauts were surprised in the hunt
My dad’s (RIP) favorite movie with Charlton Heston was A man called horse…epic!
A Man called Horse starred Richard Harris.Charlton Heston was not in it
"I wanna cosplay as Nova" - Mary Cherry
Me - "Yes"
OMG. I'll never ask god for anything ever again if that happens.:-)
On "OnlyFans" perhaps?😁
If i recall correctly the humans in the book were all naked, only 60’s censorship resulted in them being clothed. SO how authentic do you want to get?
Charlton Heston was one of the greatest actors in Hollywood. With such classics as the 10 Commandments, The Omega Man, midway, as you mentioned Ben Hur, Airport 1975, the Mountain men and so many more.
I would have to recommend The Great Escape staring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Classic WW2 film based on a real story.
I would also recommend another WW2 classic inspired by a true story, The Dirty Dozen starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland and many others.
Saw this in the theater in Montana ,9 years old 1969.
My father took me as a 10yo to this movie in 1968 when it was first run. It started a trend as we would go to the drive-in to see the next 4 movies in the series.
OMG, this brings me so far back.....
I was around 9yrs old when this was in theaters.
Saw it a couple of years later on tv movie of the week.....something.
I don't think there is a movie that has Charlton Heston in it that sux.
Seriously...even Omega Man.....the re-make was Will Smith's...I Am Legend.
Ben Her, The Ten Commandments, 1976's Mid Way...just to name a few.
The ending hit everyone I heard in the theaters........a lot of gasps and omg's were heard.
Well, there is "Airport '75"!
@@glawnow1959 True, and Earthquake too.
@@buzbom1 Both classics.
"Planet of the Apes" was the first film of the series. After it was a hit, 20th Century Fox began making the sequels "Beneath," "Escape to" (which takes us to Earth still controlled by humans), "Conquest of," and "Battle for." Heston and Stephen Boyd are great in "Ben-Hur" and you should see him in the Orson Welles film "Touch of Evil" which is a real loop-de-loop of a movie, starting with its opening shot. This came out around Easter 1968 and every sci-fi fan at my elementary school was talking about it for weeks afterward. Kim Hunter, who played Zira, was the original "Stella" from "A Streetcar Named Desire." Roddy McDowell, Cornelius, was a child star at MGM in the 40s who was great friends with Elizabeth Taylor. This is a terrific movie, and back in the 60s, there were real subtexts with ideas of racism and evolution in this material.
This is one of the huge problems with prequals for first time viewers esp for such an iconic movie. The revolutionary shock iconic ending is tragically inevitably diluted.
THE RECENT MOVIES ARE "REIMAGINED" REMAKES. THE FULL ORIGIN IS TOLD IN MOVIES 3 AND 4 OF THIS SERIES. The recent movies are an alternate universe .
@@michaelgonzalez6295 that's not the point. The recent movie still screws up the huge surprise of this one.. Dawn even has an onscreen shot of Heatons spaceflight.
wait till you see the original poster for the 1968 film, talk about spoilers
@@mikegandalf Sorry, I got focused on Mary saying and you writing prequels and my nostrils flared. You are right though. That is always the risk with remakes and reboots.
@@mikegandalf I had a theory that there are two different timelines the reboot prequel timeline, and the original sequel timeline. When Escape from Planet of the Apes happened the reboot timeline was erased creating this new timeline.
The Andy Serkis Apes movies ARE NOT prequels to this, they are a separate continuity. You need to watch the rest of the original movies and you'll see that they have a totally different sequence of events that led to apes becoming the dominant species which the new trilogy can't possibly fit into, no matter how much they try to ret-con it.
Heston's favorite film was a modest western called Will Penny.
Hope you'll do sequels and meet the original Caesar!
One of the judges in Taylor’s trial is played by James Whitmore, seen almost 30 years later as Brooks, the prison librarian in The Shawshank Redemption.
Finish the saga!
I remember watching them on the local station out of Pittsburgh. They’d do a monster movie theme for the week: Dracula, werewolves, zombies, Planet of the Apes, etc. I loved it!
He was also in the "Ten Commandments"
A couple of sci fi classics from that era you might also enjoy are *Logan's Run* and *Rollerball*
The soundtrack won an Oscar.
Nominated, did not win, the incomparable John Barry won that year for The Lion In Winter.
Heston is one of my Fav actors. My Suggestion: Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments.
Your reaction to the final scene was priceless. Saw this movie when I was in school on the big screen
the music is wonderful for this film atmospheric and powerful