Various Artists - Planet of the Apes Collection (DVD)

This box set contains all five films in the 'Planet of the Apes' series. In the original film, a group of Earth astronauts, led by Colonel George Taylor (Charlton Heston), are plunged nearly two thousand years into the future after passing through a time distortion. They crash land on a strange planet, where mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. In 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes', NASA send astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) on a rescue mission when Taylor's crew fail to return to Earth. Like Taylor, he is catapulted through time to the 'Ape' planet, where Taylor is now being held captive in the Forbidden Zone, an underground society whose telepathic mutant inhabitants dedicate their lives to their 'God': an atomic warhead. In 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes', the sympathetic chimps of the first two films, Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (Roddy McDowall), escape the nuclear devastation of the Earth by travelling back in time in Taylor's spaceship, arriving in Los Angeles in the year 1973. They are initially held in captivity in a zoo, but when they prove their intelligence they are released and hailed as celebrities. In 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes', the year is now 1991. Following a plague which wiped out all cats and dogs, apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar (Roddy McDowall) sees them being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion against their overlords. 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes' opens in 2670 with the ape Lawgiver (John Huston) relating how, following the 1991 rebellion, mankind embarked on a terrible nuclear war. In the devastation which followed, Caesar and the apes seized control, ruling benevolently over the human survivors, and working to rebuild society. However, civil war was being fermented by ambitious gorilla general Aldo (Claude Akins). Also included is previously unseen footage and interviews with cast and crew members.

General

Studio:	20th Century Fox Home Ent.
Country of origin:	Sweden
Release date:	November 2002
Movie released:	1973
Actors:	Charlton Heston • Roddy McDowall • Kim Hunter • Maurice Evans • James Whitmore • Norman Burton • Jeff Burton • James Daly • Robert Gunner • Linda Harrison • Buck Kartalian • Mark Kingston • Woodrow Parfrey • Lou Wagner • James Franciscus • James Gregory • Victor Buono • Thomas Gomez • Paul Richards • Natalie Trundy • Bradford Dillman • Eric Braeden • Sal Mineo • Ricardo Montalban • William Windom • Don Murray • Severn Darden • Hari Rhodes • Claude Akins • John Huston • Lew Ayres • Paul Williams • Austin Stoker • France Nuyen • Paul Stevens • Bobby Porter • John Randolph • Asa Maynor • H M Wynant • David Chow • John Dennis • Paul Comi • Gordon Jump • David Watson
Contributors:	Arthur P. Jacobs • Frank Capra Jr • Michael Wilson • Rod Serling • Paul Dehn • Mort Abrahams • John William Corrington • Joyce Hooper Corrington • Jerry Goldsmith • Leonard Rosenman • Tom Scott
Directors:	Franklin J. Schaffner • Ted Post • J. Lee Thompson • Don Taylor
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Disks:	6
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	15
Categories:	Music DVD > Science Fiction DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	X93-GVF-9ME-3
Barcode:	5039036007450

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• Interactive Menus
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Other Documentary: TV Spots. Bonus Disc: 'Behind the Planet of the Apes'

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