Planet of the Apes (1968) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”
★★★★★
Released at the same time as Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes is a brilliant science fiction film based on La Planète des singes(1963) by French writer Pierre Boulle. It explores a variety of compelling themes –evolutionary biology, space/time travel, and the nature of prejudice (appropriate for its themes Planet of the Apes was released one day before the death of Martin Luther King Jr). Television’s golden writer Rod Serling was hired to write the script (originally intended to be a Twilight Zone spin-off), but after a year or so Serling departed the project so the script cycled through different writers eventually settling on Michael Wilson, writer of Bridge on the River Kwai. Apparently the final script contained numerous departures from Boulle’s…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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