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Despite the warning of its publicity sheet, after detailing the plot till within minutes of the end, that "the shocking conclusion of Planet of the Apes will not be revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which...
Visually, Planet of the Apes is just as senseless. The ape community looks to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, on an off-day. A lengthy fight sequence between Heston and the apes achieves next to no continuity because director Franklin Schaffner fools around too much with the camera. But the apes themselves, if a cut below their remarkable prototypes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could easily be worse--with lousy makeup or lousy actors. Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans are the best...
...NAKED APE, by Desmond Morris. Anthropologically questionable but unquestionably entertaining speculations on man and his primate descendants...
...Naked Ape, Morris...
PLANET OF THE APES. This screen version of Pierre Boulle's abrasive science-fiction fantasy has replaced Swiftian satire with self-parody; even so, $1,000,000 worth of ape makeup and costumes covers a lot of blemishes...