Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) on Netflix
After a global nuclear war, Caesar leads a city of apes and humans while General Aldo wants humans caged. His assistant MacDonald knows of recordings of Caesar's parents in the Forbidden City.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Caesar rules Ape City, where apes live alongside the surviving humans, who do menial work. Lisa is his wife and Cornelius their son. Caesar tries to hold the two groups in peace, but the gorilla general Aldo wants the humans imprisoned, and Aldo's followers attack a human teacher, Abe, after he says no to an ape. Caesar asks whether his own parents could have shown him how to make things better. MacDonald, his human aide, tells him his brother knew of archived recordings of Caesar's parents, held beneath the ruined, radioactive Forbidden City. Caesar sets out for the archives with MacDonald and the orangutan Virgil.
Cast
- Bobby Porteras Cornelius
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In the 2012 film Argo, Tony Mendez gets the idea for his fake movie's cover story from watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes on television, a nod to Apes make-up artist John Chambers's role in the real 1980 Canadian Caper rescue of U.S. diplomats from Iran.
- Paul Dehn claimed to have rewritten 90% of the dialogue and changed the ending: the Corringtons' script ended with ape and human children fighting on a playground, but Dehn chose a close-up of a teary Caesar statue, which Joyce Corrington called "stupid." The Writers Guild of America ruled in favor of the Corringtons for sole screenplay credit.
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes was the second-to-last film produced by Arthur P. Jacobs; he died on June 27, 1973, at age 51, exactly two weeks after the film's release.
