Planet Of The Apes Collection (DVD)

...The story..... The Planet Of The Apes (1968) A space ship launched from Earth heads out to a distant star. the experts on Earth believe that as they travel earth time speeds up, where as their time remains constant.. Heston (Astronaut Taylor) is the last to go in to hibernation, and notes that the theory appears to be correct, looking at the date and time dial. The four astronauts on board are carried to the distant planet until it crash lands ...
...They find themselves on a planet which appears to be dead. They must find plant life and water or die. Taylor tells the rest that the clock on board said A.D. 3978, which proves the theory. As time goes on they find that the inhabitants of the planet appear to be mute humans, but quickly find a more aggressive species who appear to rule them - Apes. They suddenly find themselves being hunted in a cornfield together with the other humans. Dodge is ...

pc2308 25.06.2007 (19.06.2007) · Read full review
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...the original 1967 version of Planet of the apes. The original film was based on an idea from the French novel by Pierre Boulle, and was the start of a theme that would span for five films. When I heard they were releasing a box set of the original films with the upcoming release of the 2001 remake I had my order put in before you can say a short word very fast. For the princely sum of £45, I received my box set through the post and marvelled at ...
...is what happened next: Planet of the Apes (1967) When Colonel George Taylor (Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on an unfamiliar planet, he is soon captured and held prisoner by Apes the dominant species on this planet. The Ape community is split with certain groups e.g. scientists, warriors, diplomats, with each group depicted by a certain species of Ape. Their policy toward humans, who, on this planet are treated as mindless animals, ...

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...Of Documentary - 'Behind The Planet Of The Apes' and a 12-Page Booklet, ah well, but then it does cost £49.99] ~~The Planet of the Apes Films~~ The Planet of the Apes, is a great science fiction film set on a world where apes are the most evolved beings of the planet and can talk, and where humans can’t. Our hero find this planet, and finds out a few secrets too, not to mention one great, big mind shattering one. The sequels continue the story ...
...change them. ~~Details~~ The Planet of the Apes is based on the book by Pierre Boulle. In the novel the apes are more advanced, but due to budgeting costs, for the film, they decided to regress them timewise. Also a number of other changes were made, mostly to adapt to the film medium. The novel is extremely interesting, but wouldn’t have made the great action sci/fi film, that they did make. All the films were produced by Arthur P Jacobs (APJAC ...

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