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Escape From the Planet of the Apes

MEET BABY MILO WHO HAS WASHINGTON TERRIFIED.

In this third part in the Planet of the Apes series, Zira (Kim Hunter), Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and a colleague of theirs (Sal Mineo) journey to present-day Earth; as one might expect, they become a novelty to bored Beverly Hills residents and a threat to paranoid politicians.

Needless to say, it’s a reversed situation compared to the first movie. Roddy McDowall returns to the part he helped create there; along with Kim Hunter, he makes the apes sympathetic prisoners in a primitive human world.

Fairly predictable, but its way of building affection for story and characters makes this the best of the sequels.


1971-U.S. 98 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Don Taylor. Cast: Roddy McDowall (Cornelius), Kim Hunter (Zira), Bradford Dillman (Lewis Dixon), Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban. 

Trivia: Followed by Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). 


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