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...western that tells it like it was? Will Penny starts out that way. The opening scenes of cowboys working in the Old West depict them as a sordid rabble of exploited riffraff with a uniformly low opinion of themselves. Is the film really going to show that Charlton Heston can act as well as perform? At the start, he is completely convincing as Cowboy Will Penny-illiterate, aging, and anything but bright. He doesn't even have a heart of gold; Gary Cooper would never have left a wounded pal to bleed his life away in a wagon outside...
...Charlton Heston, of course, does what is expected of him. The pity is that he has to; he was so good when...
...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 Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) resolves to castrate Heston and reduce him otherwise to a vegetable. His ape sponsors, however...
PLANET OF THE APES. This science-fiction film represents the expenditure of $1.000,000 to make Maurice Evans look like an orangutan, Kim Hunter and Roddy Mc-Dowall look like chimpanzees, a large cast look like other assorted members of the monkey family, and Charlton Heston look like an astronaut...
...English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental; there are no such persons as Alfred Hitchcock and Charlton Heston...