Planet of the Apes

Released Year: 1968

Certificate: U

Runtime: 112 minutes

Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 79

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Stars: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans

No of Votes: 165167

Gross: 33395426

Overview: An astronaut 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.

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