Overview:
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.| Status: | Released (1973-06-15) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $8,844,595 |
| Screen: | Pierre Boulle, Paul Dehn, John William Corrington |
| Productions: | Apjac International, 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 7505: Roddy McDowall - Caesar
- 18648: Natalie Trundy - Lisa
- 103707: Austin Stoker - MacDonald
- 99829: Severn Darden - Kolp
- 4307: Claude Akins - Aldo
- 35040: Paul Williams - Virgil
- 18678: Richard Eastham - Mutant
Crews
- 18669: J. Lee Thompson - Director - Directing
- 2027: Leonard Rosenman - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 1762: Richard H. Kline - Director of Photography - Camera
- 18672: John C. Horger - Editor - Editing
- 18665: Alan Jaggs - Editor - Editing
- 68683: John William Corrington - Screenplay - Writing
- 68684: Joyce Hooper Corrington - Screenplay - Writing
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Reviews
Ian Beale
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**The best of the sequels** _Battle for the Planet of the Apes_ is the best of the Planet of the Apes sequels - a film packed with emotion and incident. Caesar (Roddy McDowall) seeks his parents in the ruins of a destroyrd city and irks a gang of crazed freaks who all wear silly h ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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In the beginning God created beast and man so that both might live in friendship and share dominion over a world of peace. The original Planet of the Apes film franchise closed down with a whimper as budget restrictions, general screenplay lethargy and contempt of familiarity swam ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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A limp way for the original franchise to finish. Its predecessor, <em>'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'</em>, was a weak entry too but remained watchable, though <em>'Battle for the Planet of the Apes'</em> kinda straddles the other side as it's uninteresting. I didn't dislike ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Well the last film was last year, but that's ten years for an ape so we now find "Caesar" (Roddy McDowell) living with his family and presiding over what I think Shakespeare referred to as a "loose confederation of warring tribes". The militaristic gorillas, led by "Aldo" (Claude Atk ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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**_The most comic booky of the original five films, but sociologically interesting_** A dozen years after a nuclear war, Caesar (Roddy McDowell) oversees a village of apes mixed with subservient humans. He and his advisor (Paul Williams), as well as Ceasar’s human assistant (Austi ....
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