Release Message:  An astronaut (Charlton Heston) and his crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Description:  An astronaut and his crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. A team of astronauts find themselves stranded on a barren planet in the distant future when their ship crashes in a lake. Two of the men are killed and the wounded survivor, Taylor, finds himself lost and temporarily unable to speak in a world where apes are the dominant species and humans are hunted like animals.