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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 cover a lot of blemishes.
The novel by Pierre Boulle (The Bridge on the River Kwai) about the conflict of man and monkey was a clever, abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as...
GARDEN ON THE MOON by Pierre Boulle. 315 pages. Vanguard. $4.95.
That's about the only surprise in the new novel by Pierre Boulle (Bridge Over the River Kwai). A shallow attempt at fictionalizing the space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the...
"It is a fine end for an astronaut," writes Boulle. But a sad one for so capable a Bridge builder.