FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Planet of the Apes
Scores
- IMDb8.0/10as of 2026-02-22
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer86%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.6/10as of 2021-10-10
- Metacritic79/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science-fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Linda Harrison. In the film, an astronaut crew crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future.
At a glance
- Genres
- Science fiction
- Original language
- English
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