Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Directed by Don Taylor
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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Description: The phenomenal success of the 1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes spawned this sequel in which simian scientists Cornelius and Zira (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter, reprising their roles from the first Planet of the Apes movie) travel backward in time, setting the stage for the ape supremacy of the first two films.
Its grandfather would be Lawrence of Arabia and its grandmother, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, because that particular oddity from 1971 is the matron of all time paradox movies — movies that can’t decide which came first, the chicken or the egg, so they settle on a light scramble and hope we discuss things until we collapse from exhaustion and no longer care.
It was Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes all over again.