Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Time-traveling astronaut Charlton Heston crashes on an unknown planet two millennia in the future and finds himself in a world run by highly-advanced apes who treat humans as beasts and slaves. Offering a bracing look in the mirror, the iconic adventure film is vintage Serling: transplanting social concerns onto a fantastic future world.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs. Screenwriter: Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, from the novel "La planete des singes" by Pierre Boulle. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore.
35mm, color, 112 min.
