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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
(1972)
Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1972
Running Times: 87 mins (Netherlands -
theatrical) 88 mins (USA - theatrical)
Format: colour Todd-AO
35 35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Apjac Productions
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs
Associate Producer: Frank Capra Jr
Unit Production Manager: William G. Eckhardt
SCRIPT
Script: Paul Dehn
Characters: Pierre Boulle
DIRECTION
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Assistant Director: David 'Buck' Hall
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Bruce Surtees
Colour: DeLuxe
EDITING
Editors: Marjorie Fowler, Allan Jaggs
MUSIC
Music: Tom Scott
SOUND
Sound: Herman Lewis, Don Bassman
SPECIAL MAKE UP
Creative Make Up Design: John Chambers
Make Up Supervisor: Dan Striepeke
Make Up: Joe Sibella, Jack Barron
Hair: Carol Pershing
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Philip Jeffries
Set Decorator: Norman Ruckett
Title Designer: Don Record
OTHER CREW
Unit Publicist: Jack Hirshberg
LOCATIONS
Locations: Century City Shopping Center, Century City,
California, USA; Irvine, California, USA
CAST
Roddy McDowall (Caesar)
Don Murray (Governor Breck)
Natalie Trundy (Lisa)
Hari Rhodes (MacDonald)
Severn Darden (Kolp)
Lou Wagner (busboy)
John Randolph (commission chairman)
Asa Maynor (Mrs Riley)
H.M. Wynant (Inspector Hoskyns)
David Chow (Aldo)
Buck Kartalian (Frank the gorilla)
John Dennis (policeman)
Paul Comi (2nd policeman)
Gordon Jump (auctioneer)
Dick Spangler (announcer)
Joyce Haber (Zelda)
Hector Soucy (ape with chain)
Ricardo Montalban (Armando)
PLOT SUMMARY
Caesar, the offspring of
two of the apes from the future, has survived to
adulthood in the care of a sympathetic circus owner. But
when he visits a major city for the first time, he sees
the way humans treat the great apes they are now using as
slaves. The time is right for revolution and Caesar could
be the one to start it...
CAPSULE REVIEW
The most brutal of the
Apes films and the one that now looks most like a product
of its time. Nowhere near as bad as it has been
suggested, it is in fact one of the best of the sequels,
boasting a carefully realised future milieu and some
excellent battle scenes as the Apes seize control of the
city.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 12
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1972
August
10: West Germany - theatrical release
18: Finland - theatrical release
September
27: Sweden - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
1999: conquista della Terra
- Italian title
A Conquista do Planeta dos Macacos - Portugese title
Apinoiden planeetan valloitus - Finnish title
La conquête de la planète des singes -
French title
La conquista del planeta de los simios - Spanish title
Eroberung vom Planet der Affen - West German title
Erövringen av apornas planet - Swedish title
Podbój planety malp - Polish title
La rebelión de los simios - Spanish title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the
Apes (1971)
SEQUEL
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
SEE ALSO
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975)
Free Enterprise (1998)
Battlefield Earth (2000)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to Science
Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.77
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
pp.73-74
credits
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
plagues; animals; apes; gorillas; chimpanzees; orang-utans; revolution; slavery;
the future; torture; brain washing; behaviour modification; authoritarianism
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