Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

Release Date:  9/13/1974
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Length:  60 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV SF THR
Release Message:  Two 20th century astronauts Virdon and Burke (James Naughton), survive a crash-landing on a planet in the year 3085 A.D. where intelligent apes rule over the inferior humans.
Description:  Two astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over the inferior humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' dogma - and puts their lives in danger. A human-male named Farrow finds a crashed spaceship, goes inside, and discovers three astronauts - one dead, two unconscious. He carries the two unconscious ones to his cave and, after they revive, shows them an old book with a photo of New York City in the year 2503. Shocked, the astronauts figure that while they left Earth in the year 1980, they've somehow come back to Earth more than a thousand years later, and that apes now rule the planet! Farrow is killed defending the astronauts who are captured by apes, tried, and thrown into a cell. They escape in company with a sympathetic chimp named Galen and begin a series of adventures.