MRQE Ranks: The Damned Dirty Planet of the Apes Franchise

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Planet of the Apes (1968)

Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Synopsis: Originally intended as a project for Blake Edwards, the film version of Pierre Boule's semisatiric sci-fi novel came to the screen in 1968 under th... [MORE]

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Cast: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton

Director: Rupert Wyatt

Synopsis: The Escapist director Rupert Wyatt takes the helm for this Planet of the Apes prequel centering on genetically engineered chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis... [MORE]

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy

Director: Don Taylor

Synopsis: Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boul... [MORE]

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Natalie Trundy, Ricardo Montalban, Hari Rhodes

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Synopsis: The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius and Zira at the end o... [MORE]

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Cast: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Charlton Heston, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison

Director: Ted Post

Synopsis: Sometime after the events of the first Planet of the Apes, the climax of which is repeated frame for frame at the beginning of this sequel, another... [MORE]

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Planet of the Apes (2001)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti

Director: Tim Burton

Synopsis: This big budget "re-imagining" of the 1968 original departs somewhat from both that classic science fiction film and the source novel by author Pie... [MORE]

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Cast: Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Claude Akins, Severn Darden, John Huston

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Synopsis: The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fictio... [MORE]