Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by | Arthur P. Jacobs |
| Written by | Paul Dehn |
| Based on | Characters created by Pierre Boulle |
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Roddy McDowall Don Murray Ricardo Montalbán Natalie Trundy Hari Rhodes |
| Music by | Tom Scott |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Edited by | Marjorie Fowler Alan L. Jaggs |
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APJAC Productions
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million |
| Box office | $9,700,000 |
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is a 1972 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by Paul Dehn. It is the fourth of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. The film stars Roddy McDowall, Don Murray and Ricardo Montalbán. It explores how the apes rebelled from humanity's ill treatment following Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). It was followed by Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
The series reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) has a similar premise to Conquest, but is not officially a remake.
The opening titles set the film in "North America – 1991." Armando (Ricardo Montalbán) explains that in 1983 (ten years after the end of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, which was set two years ahead of its theatrical release date), a disease killed the world's cats and dogs, leaving humans with no pets. To replace them, humans began keeping apes as household pets. Realizing the apes' capacity to learn and adapt, humans train them to perform household tasks. By 1991, American culture is based on ape slave labor (just as Cornelius described would happen in the previous film). It is also suggested that the North America of the 1990s is at least partly a police state, as apes and humans are being watched at all times.
Armando and Caesar (Roddy McDowall), a young chimpanzee horseback rider in Armando's circus, distribute flyers around a large city to advertise the circus' arrival. Armando warns the chimpanzee to be careful....should anyone learn his identity as the son of Cornelius and Zira, it would mean their deaths. They see apes performing various menial tasks, and are shocked at the harsh discipline on disobedient apes. Seeing an ape being beaten and drugged, Caesar shouts "Lousy human bastards!" Quickly, Armando takes responsibility for the exclamation, explaining to the policemen that it was he who shouted, not his chimpanzee. The surrounding crowd becomes agitated, and Caesar flees.
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