Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Fox)
Charlton Heston is the leader of a group of astronauts whose spaceship crashes on an unknown planet in the future. After a trek through the desert, they stumble upon a tribe of primitive humans, but are soon captured by the real rulers of the planet, apes. Heston finds himself at the center of a controversial theory by one of their leading scientists: that apes evolved from man. The intellectual orangutans, who apparently control both religion and science, try to suppress the theory, while the pure scientists, chimps, are accused of heresy. Rod Serling and Michael Wilson's screenplay brilliantly turns the evolution debate on its head to expose its fallacies. They also manage to work in an anti-nuclear message in one of the best endings of all time. Incredibly, both topics are still as relevant today as they were in 1968 and the film has not aged at all.
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