Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Directed by

Don Taylor

Genre

drama film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

G

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 1,246 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two intelligent apes from a future where apes rule the Earth travel back in time to 1970s Los Angeles. They struggle to adapt to human society but face fear and prejudice from the people they encounter.

tensesuspensefulmelancholicthought-provokingdramaticreflectivesaduneasy

What happens

Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Don Taylor and written by Paul Dehn. The film is the sequel to Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and the third installment in the original Planet of the Apes film series. It stars Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, Sal Mineo, and Ricardo Montalbán. In the film, Cornelius (McDowall) and Zira (Hunter) flee back through time to 20th-century Los Angeles, where they face fear and persecution. Escape from the Planet of the Apes was released in the United States on May 26, 1971, by 20th Century-Fox. The film received a mainly positive response from critics and is generally considered the best sequel of the original Apes series. Escape was followed by Conquest of the Planet of the Apes in 1972. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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