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Bookmark this pageBattle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Director: J Lee Thompson
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From Time Out Film Guide
The fifth offshoot from Pierre Boulle's novel, last and worst of the 'Ape' series. It's hampered by a banal script which, bringing the story full circle by way of an uninteresting struggle between warlike gorillas, peaceful chimps and underground mutants, seems reluctant to use the potentials for astute comic strip philosophy that all the other films revelled in to a greater or lesser extent.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: J Lee Thompson
Producer: Arthur P Jacobs
Cast: Natalie Trundy, Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, John Huston full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 86 mins
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