ARTHOUSE
A Film Lecture Series
Led by Tony McKibbinCo-organised with Sigrid Schmeisser
The Planet of
the Apes I
The film’s closing image would have been an initial surprise but has now become iconic: Charlton Heston realising that the planet he is on is none other than earth and that there isn’t much left of civilisation but a collapsed Statue of Liberty.
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner, (1920–1989), US
Writers
Michael Wilson
Rod Serling
Pierre Boulle
Starring
Charlton Heston
Roddy McDowall
Kim Hunter
Release date
1968