PLANET OF THE APES (1968)

Saturday, November 8
5:00 PM
PLANET OF THE APES
classic sci-fi
1968 / US / 112 minutes / Format: 35 mm
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
Print Source: 20th Century Fox
The future is bleak for three astronauts whose space capsule crashes off the
shore of a seemingly unknown planet. There is only desert and rocks—and
apes who act like humans and mute humans who act like lowly animals. What
is going on? It’s up to Charlton Heston, wearing a loincloth and overacting
in his late-‘60s sci-fi best, to find out. When he becomes part of a laboratory
experiment helmed by two apes, mankind’s past and future converge,
revealing a disturbing revelation that may mean there is no future at all.
Featuring Academy Award-winning special effects, a very creepy soundtrack,
and timeless, sci-fi themes that still resonate, this rare 35mm screening of the
1968 classic will have you guessing until the very end, where you too will be
driven to scream, “DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!”