Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Written by	Pierre Boulle (characters) Paul Dehn and John Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay)
Starring	Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy John Huston Paul Williams
Release date(s)	June 15, 1973
Running time	93 min.
Language	English
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film and is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. Considered by critics to be the least favorable of all the sequels to the original, the film's budget was also the lowest. Image File history File links Battle_for_the_Planet_of_the_Apes. ... J. Lee Thompson in the 1970s John Lee-Thompson (1 August 1914 - 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. ... Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963). ... Screenwriter Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) began his show-business career in 1936 as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. ... Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was an English/American actor. ... Claude Marion Akins, an American actor (b. ... Natalie Trundy (born August 5, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actress, and the widow of movie producer Arthur P. Jacobs. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19, 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American composer, songwriter, and actor. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... // Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who finds himself stranded on an Earth-like planet two thousand years in the future. ... J. Lee Thompson in the 1970s John Lee-Thompson (1 August 1914 - 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. ...

Plot

Set in flashback to the turn of the 21st century, this sequel focuses on the ape leader, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), twelve years after he led the ape revolution in the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. In this post-nuclear war society, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between his simian peers and the surviving remains of humanity. Gorilla leader Aldo (Claude Akins), however, wants nothing to do with this; therefore he plots Caesar's overthrowal and doom. Caesar is now married to Lisa, the female ape of the previous film, and they have a son, named Cornelius in honor of Caesar's father. Caesar regrets having never known his parents, until his human assistant, McDonald, informs him that through videotapes, he can hear his parents speak. Caesar learns the archives are in the Forbidden Zone, which was once Central City and is now ruined from a nuclear war. Caesar travels to the Forbidden City and sneaks in to find the record archives. However, there are others still living in the Forbidden City, many who were former slaveowners of the apes, now under the command of Governor Kolp. Caesar and his party learns of the future of the world as well as see his parents, but barely have enough time wherein to study the tapes before they must escape or risk capture and death. Kolp considers this clandestine entrance by Caesar an act of espionage while his underling Mendez says that they did nothing wrong and should be allowed to go in peace. Governor Kolp then declares war on Ape City, mustering the humans from the Forbidden Zone to destroy the ape society once and for all. Look up Plot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. ... 20XX redirects here. ... For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... This article is about the biological superfamily. ... Milo, better known as Caesar, the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira, in the Planet of the Apes movie series. ... Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was an English/American actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Society (disambiguation). ... A peace dove, widely known as a symbol for peace, featuring an olive branch in the doves beak. ... Humanity refers to the human race or mankind as a whole, to that which is characteristically human, or to that which distinguishes human beings from other animals or from other animal species primal nature. ... Type species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ... In the Planet of the Apes movie series, Aldo is the leader of the gorilla factions (and the ape revolution, by extension) during the rise of the ape society prior to humanitys downfall, as the highest species of the planet. ... Claude Marion Akins, an American actor (b. ... This article is about the game. ... Honor (or honor) comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. ... Mr. ... Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ... For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Society (disambiguation). ...

Meanwhile, Aldo is furious over the fact that Caesar is leader of the apes, and plots a military coup in order to get himself installed as the leader of Ape City. Cornelius, while climbing a tree, overhears this, but is spotted by Aldo, who hacks at the branch, causing Cornelius to suffer serious injuries and remain bedridden. Caesar is devastated by this news, and can only leave Cornelius' side when he learns Kolp is invading Ape City. Aldo corrals all the humans into a pen, claiming that all humans are alike and should be locked away. A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ...

Towards the end of the movie, the mutants lose in their effort to conquer Ape City (a reversed plot similar to the failure of the apes to conquer the Forbidden Zone in the second film). It is then revealed that Cornelius' injury was not due to an accident, but Aldo's malevolence. An infuriated Caesar engages in a single combat with Aldo, which results in Aldo's death. Ceasar then frees the humans, who claim that they will stay in the corral, because freedom is meaningless without respect by the apes. Caesar then realizes the apes are just as despicable as the slaveowners who once owned them if they treat the humans as second class citizens. The apes and humans then decide to coexist with one another and begin to make a new society. Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical. ... it means bad things. ... Look up freedom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Second class citizen is an informal term used to describe a disenfranchised person, either because they are literally barred from participating in voting or because they are generally regarded as of inferior social status in relation to dominant classes. ...

Back in Forbidden City, Kolp's underling Mendez has succeeded him as Governor. A mutant is about to fire the cobalt bomb when Governor Mendez countermands Kolp's last order, saying that it will result in massive destruction and a Pyrrhic victory, whereas if they form a respect, even religion, based on the bomb, they will always have a sense of purpose in their lives. For other uses, see Cobalt (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Bomb (disambiguation). ... A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor. ... Purpose in its most general sense is the anticipated aim which guides action. ...

It is then revealed that the story is being told by an elderly ape (the Great Lawgiver, played by John Huston) over 600 years later to a group of young humans and apes. It is left ambiguous as to whether the ape-dominated society as seen in the first film and the eventual destruction of Earth as seen in the second will actually come to pass. However, as this film takes place after a nuclear war has nearly wiped out civilization, at least one major element of the first film still occurs. One important difference between the histories is that the Lawgiver is teaching human children that are both healthy and intelligent, unlike the first two films wherein humans lacked the ability to speak. The Lawgiver is an orangutan character in the science fiction movie series Planet of the Apes. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people. ... A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Central New York City. ... Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being (Blaxter 1990). ... Look up ability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Ability - the quality of person of being able to perform; A quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment. ...

Screenwriter Paul Dehn stated that the final shot of a tear rolling from the eye of the statue of Caesar is a final comment to the audience that Caesar's vision of a joint ape/human society ultimately failed. For other uses, see Eye (disambiguation). ...

Goofs

When the humans from the dead city and two of Aldo's gorillas meet in the desert, Governor Kolp watches the gorillas through his binoculars. He then issues orders to shoot the gorillas with a cannon. The cannon fires in a completely different direction to the way he was looking, but hits them anyway.

Caesar's famous "Now, fight like apes!" line is marred by his ape lower-mouth appliance beginning to fall off, revealing his own human mouth inside. The director tried to hide this by blurring those frames of film at the lower end of the screen. What looks like dust on the camera was intentional.

Extended Cut

The CBS television version adds a few scenes cut from the theatrical release. One scene takes place after Aldo chases teacher Abe, where MacDonald reminds him why humans should not say "no" to an ape. Another scene towards the end of the film shows the beginnings of the House of Mendez cult, as the humans in the city are about to fire off the doomsday bomb (as seen in Beneath the Planet of the Apes), but decide not to, as it would threaten the world. If checked carefully in "Beneath", one can see signs of Mendez being around the Forbidden Zone, as there is a hymnal on the pipe organ reading "Mendez II", busts of past leaders of the mutant society (such as Mendez XIV), and the leader of the mutant society in "Beneath" is also named Mendez (presumably a descendant of the Mendez in "Battle"). It is clear that Governor Mendez has taken a different tack of leadership from his predecessors, Kolp and Breck, in that he is more sympathetic to the apes living their own lives; so long as they do not invade the mutant territory, and starting up the religion of the bomb. It is also possible that he has now started a theocracy with the leader being called Mendez, and coming to power through hereditary succession. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), is the first of four sequels to Planet of the Apes (1968), with James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, and Charlton Heston in a supporting role. ... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      For the metal band, refer to Theocracy (band). ...

In 2006, the Planet of the Apes movies were re-released separately and in a new box set. When Battle for the Planet of the Apes was re-released on the box set and separately, it was advertised as a digitally-remastered, extended version with 10 minutes of additional footage.

This version has been released before, via bootleg, and has been widely acknowledged by Apes fans as the definitive version. Here listed are the additional scenes:

• Near the end of the opening credits, the score continues to its original ending for 25 seconds, with extra footage of General Aldo approaching on a horse.
• The chase of the teacher of the apes is longer by 20 seconds.
• The mutant chief is walking around in his HQ, and has more dialogue.
• The entry into the ruins of Central City (now called the Forbidden City) of the ape scout party with Caesar is 40 seconds longer, with more dialogue.
• The escape from the Forbidden City shows more footage and dialogue involving the apes.
• The scene were Cornelius is "shot" by a human boy begins slightly earlier, making it clear that the shooting is a game — which makes more sense, since no mutant party had yet even approached the ape city.
• DELETED SCENE: In this edited scene, Governor Kolp tells his lieutenant to fire an atomic missile on Ape City when he gives the signal.
• The assault by the mutants is shown 45 seconds longer. (In this sequence there were three more smaller cuts that reduced the battle scene by 40 additional seconds, and originally there was no musical score.)
• The scene where the Governor Kolp calls "Sergeant York" is missing.
• Again, parts of the assault are cut by almost 40 seconds.
• There are additional shots and dialogue before the mutants lay down the smoke screen.
• 15 more seconds of the battle were cut.
• 20 seconds of later battle footage cut.
• The scene where Aldo kills Governor Kolp and his followers in the school bus was cut in the U.S. theatrical version, but has been restored.
• The fight between Aldo and Caesar is longer.
• DELETED SCENE: The new Governor Mendez talks the mutant lieutenant out of firing the atomic missile. As they argue, they discover it is the ALPHA-OMEGA bomb. This scene was cut. (Only with this sequence reinserted the odd cut from the Caesar conversation involving the humans to the ending sequence makes a little more sense and looks better.)

External links

• Battle for the Planet of the Apes at the Internet Movie Database