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Escape From the Planet of the Apes

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Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)

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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 18  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5.8/10
 
Consensus: More character-driven than the previous films, and more touching. One of the better Planet of the Apes sequels, Escape is more character-driven than the previous films, and more touching as a result. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis:
In the future, the Earth is ruled by a race of highly-evolved simians who supplanted humans after a nuclear holocaust. But when the ape-led Earth is threatened with total annihilation, a trio of scientists journey backwards through time in order to prevent the catastrophe. Once in the... [More]
In the future, the Earth is ruled by a race of highly-evolved simians who supplanted humans after a nuclear holocaust. But when the ape-led Earth is threatened with total annihilation, a trio of scientists journey backwards through time in order to prevent the catastrophe. Once in the human-led world, however, they find themselves hunted by a suspicious and fearful government desirous of making them the subjects of an experiment that could alter the course of human and ape events. [Less]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Ricardo Montalban, Sal Mineo, Eric Braeden

Director: Don Taylor
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs
Screenwriter: Paul Dehn
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 28, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • THX Certified Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Mono - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Documentary - "Don Taylor Directs ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES"
  • Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailers (Entire Movie Series)

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Biographies - Cast

DVD-ROM:

  • Weblinks

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Former actor Don Taylor directs smoothly and efficiently and elicits fine performances from the cast.

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06/04/07 05:26 PM
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes is an excellent film, almost as good as the original Planet of the Apes.

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06/04/07 05:25 PM
Variety
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Passable entertainment, but it's no fun watching the likable, witty Cornelius and Zira become hairy martyrs.

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04/09/07 03:15 AM
Rob Gonsalves
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It's a long way down from even the second in the series.

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01/26/06 03:16 AM
Time Out
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10/08/05 03:13 PM
Chuck O'Leary
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09/13/05 09:44 AM
Emanuel Levy
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the film is a highly satisfying mix of satire and suspense

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06/10/05 04:13 PM
Douglas Pratt
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One of the better new movies in town, and better in a genre -- science-fiction -- that at the crucial middle level where the history of movies is made, if not written, has recently been not so much bad as invisible.

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05/10/05 03:15 AM
Roger Greenspun
New York Times
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The last of the "Ape" sequels that's worth watching.

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07/15/04 11:30 AM
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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Possibly the least of the series, but certainly not a predictable sequel.

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11/28/03 11:37 PM
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
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09/07/03 02:47 PM
Jules Brenner
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07/17/03 12:14 AM
Ryan Cracknell
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12/06/02 03:39 PM
Brian J. Arthurs
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10/07/02 04:34 PM
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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Oneof the best of the bunch!

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09/27/02 06:43 PM
Michael Szymanski
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09/26/02 04:11 PM
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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feels like a quickie insert that is needed to progress the larger narrative, but doesn't have enough meat on it to deserve its own film

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09/15/02 08:17 AM
James Kendrick
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07/26/02 07:19 PM
Rob Vaux
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Brings just enough of a twist to the series' conventions.

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07/26/02 12:28 AM
Scott Weinberg
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The best of the all of the sequels.

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08/01/01 04:23 PM
Max Messier
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