Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Directed by	Don Taylor
Written by	Pierre Boulle (characters) Paul Dehn (screenplay)
Starring	Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman
Release date(s)	May 21, 1971 (U.S. release)
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 science fiction film that is the second sequel to the Planet of the Apes movie of 1968, the first sequel being Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Image File history File links Escape_from_the_planet_of_the_apes. ... There are several people of note by the name Don Taylor or Donald Taylor known for achievements in various fields. ... Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist. ... Screenwriter Paul Dehn (1912 - 1976) began his show-business career in 1936 as a movie reviewer for several London newspapers. ... McDowall as a child actor Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was a British actor. ... Kim Hunter (b. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: no content If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... See also: 1970 in film 1971 1972 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 8 - Bob Dylans hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film in which an astronaut finds himself 2,000+ years in the future stranded on an earth-like planet, in which humans are enslaved by apes. ... Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 motion picture, the first sequel to the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes. ...

The preceding film, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, ends with a nuclear weapon destroying all life on the apes' future Earth.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes begins by establishing that three apes (Cornelius, Zira, and Dr. Milo, played respectively by Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, and Sal Mineo) escaped the Earth's destruction. They have managed this by salvaging and repairing the astronaut Taylor's spaceship (which sank in the first movie) and piloting it through the shock wave of Earth's destruction sending the ship through a time warp back to the 20th century. Dr. Cornelius is a chimpanzee archaeologist and historian, appearing in the original novel of Planet of the Apes (La Planete des Singes), and also the first three installments of the classic movie series of the same name, from the 1960s and 1970s. ... Dr. Zira is a chimpanzee psychologist and veterinarian, who specialises in the study of humans, in the novel and subsequent movie series Planet of the Apes. ... In the Planet of the Apes movie series, Dr. Milo is a genius chimpanzee scientist, and a renegade who spurns the intellectual and technological limits placed on the ape society. ... McDowall as a child actor Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was a British actor. ... Kim Hunter (b. ... Salvatore Mineo, Jr. ... The Icarus is the name given to the spacecraft seen in the Planet of the Apes movies and TV series. ... Introduction The shock wave is one of several different ways in which a gas in a supersonic flow can be compressed. ... The Time Warp is a dance featured in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed during the chorus of the song of the same name. ...

The apes arrive on present-day Earth, splashing down on the Pacific coast. The navy hauls the ship to the beach, and the apes remove their helmets. They are quickly transported to seclusion for examination and are later moved to a secluded area of the Los Angeles Zoo. Milo is killed by a mean-spirited gorilla who was agitated by an argument between himself, Zira and Cornelius, leaving the two remaining apes under the observation of two scientists, Stephanie and Lewis. Both discover the apes' power of speech. The apes then are brought before the Presidential Commission, where they reveal publicly their ability to speak, and are welcomed as guests.

The apes at first become celebrities, but they are soon watched by a scientist, futuristic consultant Dr. Otto Hasslein (Eric Braeden), who discovers Zira is pregnant and fears for the future of the human race. He is determined to force the issue, gets Zira drunk to get information out of her, and convinces the Commission to have the apes taken for proper questioning. Both are questioned under numerous means, and Hasslein learns for himself how the human race will eventually meet its downfall and be dominated by simians, and will eventually lead to Earth's destruction. In the Planet of the Apes movie series, Dr. Otto Hasslein is a physicist attached to the space flight project that sends astronauts Taylor, Dodge, Landon, and Brent to the world of the apes. ... Eric Braeden as Victor Newman Eric Braeden (born Hans Jörg Gudegast on April 3, 1941) is a German film and television actor, best known for his role as the on-again, off-again villain/hero Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. ...

The government and the U.S. President order that the unborn child's birth be "prevented" and that both be sterilized, though Hasslein prefers they die. But after the ape Cornelius kills an orderly while imprisoned (the orderly teased Zira), Hasslein uses it as an illustration of the future danger the apes present, thus calls for the apes' murder. Running for their lives, Cornelius and Zira (assisted by Stephanie and Lewis) find shelter in a circus run by Armando (Ricardo Montalban), and there Zira gives birth to a son whom she names Milo. Señor Armando is the owner of a circus, a human friend of Cornelius and Zira, and foster-father of Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movie series. ... Ricardo Montalban (born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City) is a television and film actor. ... Milo, better known as Caesar, the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira, in the Planet of the Apes movie series. ...

Hasslein, knowing Zira will imminently give birth, orders a search of all circuses and zoos. As a result, Armando must let the apes go. The drama climaxes aboard a derelict ship in an abandoned ship yard. Hasslein tracks the apes down. He shoots down both Zira and the infant ape she carries. Cornelius and Hasslein end up in a shootout. Cornelius kills Hasslein, and in retaliation a police officer returns fire and shoots Cornelius in the heart. Stephanie and Lewis watch in horror as Cornelius gasps a final breath before falling three stories, then Zira tosses the baby over the side of the ship before crawling to lay with her husband.

The survivors, however, are unaware of the real fate of the infant ape; Cornelius, Zira and Armando switched babies before their final escape. Armando now watches over the infant Milo, who will grow up to become Caesar, the main character in the fourth and fifth sequels, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The film ends by showing the baby monkey Milo sitting in a cage, plaintively speaking the words "Mama? Mama?" with the voice of a human child. Milo, better known as Caesar, the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira, in the Planet of the Apes movie series. ... Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the third sequel to the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes. ... Battle For the Planet of the Apes (1973) is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. ...

Trivia

• The ending of this film was purposely written so that the writers would have something to work with, in case Fox wanted another sequel.
• The story of the plague that killed off all dogs and cats as well as that of Ape slavery and subsequent uprising is a retcon of both prior movies, where the apes do not know of their true past. Cornelius's claim that he had read history scrolls (kept secret from the masses) that detail the human downfall could be a way to rationalise the change, but it doesn't explain why he's just as clueless as the rest of Ape society in the previous movies. (He possibly had access to them offscreen during the presumed months prior to Beneath, when Zaius made Cornelius his proxy.)
• The concepts of Ape slavery and Ape uprising became the central theme of the next sequel, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Aldo, the legendary Gorilla that Cornelius believes was the first Ape possessing the power of speech, will make his (altogether different) speaking debut in the fourth sequel, Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
• Many of the scenes in this movie were inspired by the original Pierre Boulle novel. Zira's pregnancy parallels Nova's pregnancy in Boulle's original work.
• This movie marks the first appearance of Dr. Otto Hasslein. The character was referred to in both previous Planet of the Apes movies, but was never seen until this film.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the third sequel to the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes. ... 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. ... Battle For the Planet of the Apes (1973) is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. ... Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist. ... This article is about the book. ...

External links

• Escape from the Planet of the Apes at the Internet Movie Database

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