1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,200 (Roddy McDowall) This is Malibu Creek State Park... 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,040 ...located near the city of Los Angeles. 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,120 All of this once belonged... 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,600 ...to one of Hollywood's biggest and most prestigious studios: Twentieth Century Fox. 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,760 Nicknamed "The Fox Ranch"... 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,480 ...it was home to some of the most memorable motion pictures ever made. 7 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,720 But in 1968, this location was used for a very different kind of film. 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,840 Produced during one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history... 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,120 ...it explored religious, social and political themes... 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,960 ...and managed to be wildly entertaining at the same time. 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,960 World gone insane. 12 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:51,320 Upside-down civilisation. 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,320 Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape! 14 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,800 The only good human is a dead human! 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,480 My God, it's a city of apes! 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,920 Now! Fight like apes! 17 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,720 It's a madhouse! 18 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,400 Planet of the Apes spawned four sequels, two television series... 19 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,800 ...and a mountain of merchandise. 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,200 It became a cultural phenomenon. 21 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,560 And it started as the vision of two men. 22 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,560 A French novelist named Pierre Boulle... 23 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,080 ...and a Hollywood film producer named Arthur P Jacobs. 24 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Born in 1922, Arthur Jacobs began his career as a messenger at MGM in the 1940s. 25 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,680 Energetic, forceful and full of ideas... 26 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,360 ...he soon found himself working in their publicity department. 27 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:09,520 A master of promotion, he was eventually lured away by Warner Bros. 28 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,800 But Arthur wanted control of his own destiny. 29 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,600 In 1949, he left Warners to form his own public relations firm... 30 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,960 ...and within two years his client roster included such high-profile celebrities as... 31 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,000 ...Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart... 32 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,920 ...Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. 33 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:42,840 Marilyn helped Jacobs make the transition from publicist to producer in the early 1960s. 34 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,120 She agreed to star in a film he was developing called What a Way To Go. 35 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:57,320 But, before production could begin, Marilyn Monroe died on August 5th, 1962. 36 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,640 Arthur had lost his star, but not his determination. 37 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:04,880 (wolf whistle) 38 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,560 (trailer) Hi, folks! In case you didn't know it, that's a girl - all girl. 39 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,560 Yeah! Shirley MacLaine. 40 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,520 Jacobs got his movie made. 41 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,440 The film became one of Fox's top moneymakers of 1964. 42 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,480 Arthur's reputation as a skilful, creative producer was assured. 43 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:29,400 Just after the film's release, Fox studio head, Richard Zanuck... 44 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,560 ...showed his appreciation by agreeing to finance another Jacobs project... 45 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,840 ...called Dr Dolittle. 46 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,480 Starring Rex Harrison, the film featured original songs... 47 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,600 ...dazzling special effects, hundreds of extras... 48 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,280 ...and a large supporting cast of trained animals. 49 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,640 The first film in which a human being - myself - actually talks to animals. 50 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,280 It was during Dolittle's lengthy preproduction phase... 51 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,320 ...that Arthur approached Zanuck with an idea for another motion picture. 52 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,240 It, too, played with the concept of talking to the animals, but... 53 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,800 ...in a much more serious way. 54 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,880 It was called Planet of the Apes. 55 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:23,040 In 1963, Jacobs had acquired the rights to a novel entitled La Planete Des singes... 56 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,600 ...or The Monkey Planet... 57 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,480 ...by one of France's most acclaimed authors, Pierre Boulle. 58 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,680 La Planete Des singes... 59 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,120 ...told the story of three astronauts who travel to an alien world... 60 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,520 ...where man is a primitive beast, dominated by a race of superintelligent apes. 61 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,560 Jacobs read the book shortly before its official publication... 62 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,280 ...and quickly purchased the screen rights. 63 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,080 He felt that the concept would make for a visually intriguing... 64 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,680 ...highly original motion picture. 65 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,960 But Boulle disagreed. 66 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:07,320 He considered the novel one of his lesser works, with no potential for screen success. 67 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,520 During the next few months, Jacobs commissioned sketches... 68 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,880 ...depicting his concept of the apes' strange, alien world. 69 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,920 Seven different artists worked on various concepts as the story evolved. 70 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,680 He prepared a merchandising book for Planet of the Apes... 71 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,240 ...like nothing I have seen before or since. 72 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,240 It was about 130 pages of ideas. 73 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,920 And that's what Arthur was - an idea man. And he was marvellous at it. 74 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,400 (Roddy McDowall) Jacobs also contacted Rod Sterling... 75 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:48,320 ...a prolific writer, most famous for his highly acclaimed Twilight Zone television series. 76 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,600 Intrigued by Boulle's novel, Sterling began adapting it into a screenplay. 77 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,320 But the challenge proved harder than anticipated. 78 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:03,400 After nearly a year, he completed more than 30 drafts. 79 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,960 With paintings and script in hand... 80 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:13,040 ...Jacobs spent the next year pitching Planet of the Apes to all of the major studios. 81 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,520 But everywhere he went, he was met with the same response: 82 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,720 No. 83 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,600 Rejected and ridiculed... 84 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,240 ...Jacobs reached back to his roots as a publicist. 85 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,880 He knew that only one thing got Hollywood executives excited about a project. 86 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,800 A star. 87 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,320 On June 5th, 1965, Arthur made an appointment... 88 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,320 ...with one of the most respected and powerful actors in Hollywood: 89 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,720 Charlton Heston, a veteran of blockbusters like The Ten Commandments... 90 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,320 ...and an Academy Award winner for his performance in Ben Hur. 91 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:59,480 I was approached by Arthur Jacobs with Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes... 92 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:07,520 ...and a remarkable series of paintings of scenes in the picture that Arthur envisioned. 93 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,080 And it attracted me. I liked the idea of talking monkeys and the different civilisation... 94 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,040 ...and it was simply a marvellous idea for a movie. 95 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:21,360 (Roddy McDowall) Heston also recommended a director, Franklin Schaffner... 96 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,600 ...having just finished a film with him called The War Lord. 97 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,800 (Charlton Heston) So Arthur already had two key ingredients - a lead actor and a director. 98 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,720 And he would go from studio to studio and they would say... 99 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,240 ..."What are you talking about? Spaceships? Talking monkeys?" 100 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,240 "You're outta your mind! That's Saturday-morning serials!" 101 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,960 (Roddy McDowall) Their reluctance isn't hard to imagine. 102 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,880 Looks like the real thing. 103 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,120 Up to that time, actors in ape costumes... 104 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,720 ...were more often found in low-budget B-pictures... 105 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,520 ...and tended to be more laughable than believable. 106 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,000 But, despite the obstacles... 107 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,200 ...Jacobs persevered. 108 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Finally Richard Zanuck, who then ran Fox, having just taken it over from his father... 109 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,840 ...said "You know, let's have a meeting on this." 110 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,120 (Zanuck) I'd made a picture, too, with Arthur at that time... 111 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,320 ...and we signed him to a multiple-picture deal. 112 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,760 So he presented the script, which needed a lot of work, with these sketches... 113 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,840 ...and gave me a small pitch on it... 114 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:39,840 ...and I read it over the weekend and was captivated by it. 115 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,360 But I had some reservations. 116 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:48,240 Dick Zanuck said "These monkeys, they're really gonna be actors, right? In makeup?" 117 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,080 "Not real monkeys." We said "Well, sure, of course." 118 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:56,440 And he said "What if people laugh at the makeups?" 119 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,400 You know, it could be some very humorous idea... 120 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,480 ...if not done properly. 121 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,680 And I asked him... 122 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,920 ...to make this test. 123 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:16,480 (Roddy McDowall) On March 8th, 1966, Arthur and his team went to Fox and shot the test. 124 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,720 We erected a jury-rigged set. 125 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,720 The whole test cost $5,000... 126 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,520 ...which was the limit Dick would give us. 127 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,680 Good evening, Mr Thomas. 128 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,840 Feeling fine, I hope? 129 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,240 Considering I've been kept in a cage for six weeks, I'm fine. Yes. 130 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:39,920 Good. 131 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,240 The test featured Charlton Heston... 132 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,920 ...and Hollywood legend Edward G Robinson as the orangutan leader, Dr Zaius. 133 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,440 Man here is an animal. 134 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,400 Man here was an animal. He had no civilisation. 135 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:58,080 He wore no clothes, he thought no thoughts, he spoke no language. 136 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,320 Just a few feet from this tent, you found a cemetery. 137 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,720 Built and filled by a civilised race. 138 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,280 A race which, according to you, never got beyond a crawl and a couple of grunts. 139 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,720 You found more than a cemetery, Doctor. You found a question. 140 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,400 Which came first? The chicken or the egg? The ape or the man? 141 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,280 Dr Xaius? You'd better take a look at this. 142 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,440 We found it in some kind of artificial shaft. 143 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,720 Look closely and you might recognise James Brolin... 144 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,320 ...playing the chimpanzee Cornelius. 145 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,120 What do you think you've found, Mr Cornelius? 146 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:38,120 Not found, Doctor. Lost. And I'm afraid that would be a birthright. 147 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,320 Mama! 148 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,760 Mama! 149 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:48,880 They had a language. 150 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,640 While we swung from trees... 151 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,320 ...they had a language. 152 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,600 Well, you were right, Mr Thomas. We have uncovered a question. 153 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,320 Now we must unearth an answer. 154 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,400 If man had a civilisation here, what happened to it? 155 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,360 You'd better go and supervise the preparations for our departure. 156 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,120 (Roddy McDowall) The makeup was the work of Ben Nye... 157 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,360 ...the head of Fox's makeup department. 158 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,320 Although primitive, it did the trick. 159 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,880 It proved that... 160 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,520 ...the idea could work. It wasn't laughable. 161 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,080 (Roddy McDowall) After screening the test, Zanuck gave Jacobs the green light... 162 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,400 ...he had long been waiting for. 163 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,920 Planet of the Apes would, at last, become a reality. 164 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:54,320 Planet of the Apes was scheduled to begin filming in the spring of 1967... 165 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,320 ...leaving the filmmakers with only seven months to prepare... 166 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,720 ...an uncomfortably short time for such an ambitious production. 167 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,680 Although there was still some dissatisfaction with the script... 168 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,480 ...everyone agreed that the biggest challenge was the ape makeup. 169 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,000 Ben Nye's test had been a good start... 170 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,840 ...but a makeup artist was needed with experience in prosthetics... 171 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:24,920 ...lightweight latex appliances that could be moulded and used for long periods of time. 172 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:30,920 A call went out, and the man who answered it was John Chambers. 173 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,000 Chambers was a former World War Two medical technician... 174 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,240 ...who had begun his career working in a veterans' hospital... 175 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:44,880 ...designing prosthetic limbs and facial restorations for injured soldiers. 176 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,680 In the early 1950s, he moved to California... 177 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,160 ...believing his unique skills would prove a valuable asset... 178 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,320 ...to the newly emerging television industry. 179 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,400 His skill with prosthetics soon put him at the top of his profession. 180 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,880 Within a decade, he was developing creature makeups for shows like... 181 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,920 ...The Munsters, The Outer Limits... 182 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,120 ...and Lost in Space. 183 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,720 He even designed Mr Spock's famous ears for the Star Trek television series. 184 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,120 Chambers was innovative, clever and quick. 185 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,240 Skills that would be put to the test... 186 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,480 ...when he began working on Planet of the Apes in January 1967. 187 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,720 The task was formidable. 188 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,600 Chambers had to design appliances... 189 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:38,400 ...that could turn over 200 human beings into walking, talking apes... 190 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,960 ...do it for under $1 million... 191 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,320 ...and make it happen in less than four months. 192 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,800 When I saw the test film, I thought it was very good... 193 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,320 ...for what they had just tried offhand... 194 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,480 ...without any experimenting. 195 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,240 When you do people like that... 196 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:05,240 ...you have to be very careful that you don't make the audience laugh at you... 197 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,960 ...but laugh along with you. 198 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,880 (Roddy McDowall) With Fox's makeup lab at his disposal, Chambers got down to work. 199 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,360 The first order of business was to solve the technical challenges. 200 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:22,040 The makeup needed to suggest realistic mouth movements. 201 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,520 The appliances worked more with the facial muscles... 202 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,120 ...showing the animation through the... 203 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,200 ...actor creating the over-extensive smile or talk. 204 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,600 (Roddy McDowall) Surrounding himself with talented artists and newcomers... 205 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,800 ...Chambers worked around the clock. 206 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,640 And extras were hired just to sit in for numerous makeup tests. 207 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,920 Arthur Jacobs called me one day and he said "We're not gettin' anywhere." 208 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,480 "We gotta get goin'." He said "See if you can help those guys." 209 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,040 I said "Anybody ever thought of... 210 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,880 ...actually looking at an ape?" 211 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,560 He said "Yeah. If you think you can get us an ape, we'd love to see it." 212 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,120 So I went back to Arthur and I said "They need an ape." 213 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,880 He said "Get 'em one." 214 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:15,760 The next day I walk into makeup with a chimpanzee, and these guys went crazy! 215 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:21,040 (Roddy McDowall) Next, design choices were made to differentiate various types of apes. 216 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,120 Chimps, who were sympathetic to man in the story... 217 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,800 ...were made to look a little more human in appearance. 218 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,440 The gorillas represented the ape military... 219 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:35,080 ...and were given faces much fiercer than their real-life counterparts. 220 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:41,040 And the aristocratic orang-outangs were given a more noble visage. 221 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,000 What Chambers was creating for Planet of the Apes was not only ingenious... 222 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,560 ...it was breaking new ground. 223 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,760 The actors actually were able to express emotion through those makeups. 224 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,320 It's kinda tough. And John Chambers made it work. 225 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,840 While John Chambers laboured on the makeup design... 226 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,080 ...Arthur Jacobs turned his attention to the script. 227 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,080 Rod Serling's screenplay had remained faithful to the original novel... 228 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,800 ...and depicted a technologically advanced society. 229 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,360 But the production team began to fear that the apes were too evolved. 230 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,720 Futuristic helicopters and cars would be too expensive to film. 231 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,520 The early designs were very high-tech civilisation... 232 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:33,120 ...which meant you had to design all kinds of special vehicles and so on. And buildings. 233 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,720 And Frank said "I don't have enough budget as it is." 234 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,000 He said "Why don't we say it's a very primitive society... 235 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,800 ...and they use horse and wagons and very primitive buildings?" 236 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,440 And that's what we did. 237 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,280 (Roddy McDowall) After deciding on a more rustic and cost-efficient ape society... 238 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,320 ...Jacobs contacted screenwriter Michael Wilson. 239 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,440 Wilson was an Academy Award winner who had earlier collaborated... 240 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,800 ...on the screen adaptation of Pierre Boulle's The Bridge on the River Kwai. 241 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,960 (Mort Abrahams) Mike Wilson did a rewrite which was very close to being right. 242 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:16,920 We were already dealing with a science fiction... central idea. 243 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:21,680 And I had learned, because I'd done a lot of science fiction things on television... 244 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:27,720 ...that you cannot present too many... science fiction ideas... 245 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,360 ...and have them work, unless you had characters. 246 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,520 Believable human... or characters with human responses. 247 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,520 And we couldn't contain all the science fiction that Pierre had envisioned. 248 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,600 And we had to simplify it. 249 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,720 (Roddy McDowall) As it took shape... 250 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:50,360 ...production designer William Creber began designing the more primitive ape society. 251 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,880 I needed to come up with some ape unearthly architecture... 252 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:01,120 ...and so I looked at all the books I could find of... you know, to be inspired. 253 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:07,440 And I found in Turkey there's a troglodyte city carved into a mountain. 254 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,280 And I liked the shapes and that was a very strange place. And that was it. 255 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,120 It was like "That's what we're gonna do. I don't know how." 256 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,560 But we had our meeting with the director and Arthur and they said "Yeah!" 257 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,040 (Roddy McDowall) With the start of filming drawing near... 258 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,360 ...the production was hit by the unexpected loss of actor Edward G Robinson. 259 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,920 Voicing concerns over the lengthy makeup process... 260 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,200 ...he decided to withdraw from the role of Dr Zaius. 261 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,280 When we got to make the picture and we said "Eddy, we gotta have a go"... 262 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,520 ...he said "Guys, I can't do it." 263 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:48,200 He said "My heart's shot." He said "I'm too old." 264 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,880 And he said "That makeup just drove me crazy." 265 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:56,320 He said "I couldn't possibly do that, day after day." He said "I gotta pass." 266 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,200 (Roddy McDowall) Studio executives were also concerned... 267 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,720 ...this time over the film's escalating budget. 268 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,600 On April 28th, only three weeks before filming was set to begin... 269 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:14,040 ...the studio cut the production's 55-day shooting schedule by ten days. 270 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,600 All aspects of the production were affected... 271 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,720 ...with the exception of the makeup and wardrobe budget... 272 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,120 ...which remained at almost one million dollars. 273 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:30,760 Jacobs and the studio finally settled on a budget of $5.8 million. 274 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,760 And, on May 21st, 1967... 275 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,680 ...Planet of the Apes went before the cameras... 276 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,320 ...and Hollywood history was about to be made. 277 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,800 In less than an hour we'll finish our sixth month out of Cape Kennedy. 278 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,520 The earth has aged nearly 700 years since we left it. 279 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,400 While we've aged hardly at all. 280 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,320 Seen from out here, space is... boundless. 281 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,920 It squashes a man's ego. 282 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,800 I feel lonely. 283 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:20,920 I leave the 20th century with no regrets. But... one more thing: 284 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:28,240 Does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars... 285 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,120 ...still make war against his brother? 286 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,320 Following a prologue establishing the character of astronaut George Taylor... 287 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,440 ...the film's opening sequence depicted a dramatic spaceship crash. 288 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:52,440 Striving for realism, Franklin Schaffner and William Creber... 289 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,200 ...came up with a simple yet effective visual approach. 290 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,280 I convinced Frank to do it subjective... 291 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,840 ...as though you were looking out the front of the spaceship. 292 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,960 A whole montage of kind of tumbling, crashing. 293 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,280 You just see the hurtling at the water. 294 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,880 And then the screen goes black, and when it comes up... 295 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,720 ...the camera pulls back, you're inside the spaceship. 296 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,400 She's sinking! Dodge! Read the atmosphere. 297 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,520 (Roddy McDowall) To show the astronauts' escape... 298 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,600 ...a full-size mock-up of the ship's nose section was constructed out of plywood. 299 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:03,480 It was 24 feet long or longer, and we took that to Lake Powell and I anchored it in the lake. 300 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,280 Blow the hatch! 301 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,760 Abandon ship! 302 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,080 So those scenes with the guys comin' out of it, we rigged it all. 303 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,120 They could get inside and jump off of it. 304 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,520 It was in 300 feet of water. 305 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,720 (Roddy McDowall) A miniature and a detailed matte painting... 306 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,200 ...were used for the shots of the sinking ship. 307 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,400 Going. 308 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,720 Going. 309 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,120 Gone. 310 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,880 OK, we're here to stay. 311 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,120 (Roddy McDowall) The first sequences to actually be filmed... 312 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:01,320 ...depicted the surviving astronauts' trek across a desert wilderness. 313 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,480 They were shot in a remote area surrounding the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona... 314 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,600 ...by director of photography Leon Shamroy. 315 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,720 The location was desolate and treacherous. 316 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,320 Camera and sound equipment arrived by helicopter, foot and mule-pack team. 317 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,880 Jeff Burton, who played astronaut Dodge, fainted from the heat... 318 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,720 ...which often reached 120 degrees. 319 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,360 You're no seeker. 320 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,640 You thought life on Earth was meaningless. You despise people. 321 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,960 So what did you do? You ran out. 322 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,000 No, no. It's not like that, Landon. 323 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,600 I'm a seeker too. 324 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,280 But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking somewhere in the universe... 325 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,320 ...there has to be something better than man. Has to be. 326 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:03,360 (Mort Abrahams) At the beginning of the film, little figures move across the landscape. 327 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,480 The shooting went for days and days. 328 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:13,320 I said "Frank, why are you so particular about the opening sequence?" 329 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:20,440 He said "It sets the mood, the tone and the objective of the film." 330 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,520 We're going. We don't know where we're going. 331 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,600 We have no idea of what's going to happen. 332 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,800 Scarecrows? 333 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800 Let's see. 334 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,200 And that sets the body of the film. 335 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,480 To hell with the scarecrows! 336 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,480 (Roddy McDowall) Most of the filming was at the Fox Ranch, where this scene was shot. 337 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,680 - Whoo-Hoo! - Hey! Yay! Yay! 338 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:03,400 This swimming hole was originally created for Arthur Jacobs' Dr Dolittle. 339 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,280 But the waterfall was enhanced for this production... 340 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:12,240 ...courtesy of two dozen carefully hidden fire hoses. 341 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,600 Taylor, look! 342 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,880 Obviously the intent here was to show the astronauts from the touchdown... 343 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,120 ...very gradually going into the green area. 344 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,120 (Taylor) They look more or less human but I think they're mute. 345 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:44,440 The logistics were tough. For example, we had to grow a field. 346 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:50,280 The location we selected on the ranch was perfectly equipped to grow corn. 347 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,840 If this is the best they've got around here, in six months we'll be running this planet. 348 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,360 (William Creber) Franklin wanted the corn six feet high. 349 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,440 (roaring) 350 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120 We had, like, ten weeks. 351 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,800 We had sprinklers, you know, goin' 24 hours a day watering it. 352 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,120 And we'd fertilise the whole field with special fertiliser and, you know... 353 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,200 ...everything to pump this stuff up because of the amount of time we had. 354 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,520 And about three days before shooting, we had eight feet. 355 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,000 So I went back to Franklin Schaffner on the set. 356 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,240 I said "Hey, Frank, we got the corn. It's gonna be eight feet." He said "I said six feet." 357 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,880 And I said "What do you want me to do?" He says "Mow it at six feet"... 358 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:40,040 ...you know, then smiled and puffed his cigar. That was his sense of humour. 359 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,080 He destroyed that field of corn. 360 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,160 (Roddy McDowall) The cornfield hunt offered one of the most powerful... 361 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,360 ...and disturbing sequences. 362 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,160 That sequence really had to grip you... 363 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,200 ...and convince you right away what you were gonna see... 364 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,280 ...was going to be extraordinary... 365 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,560 ...was going to be shocking, was going to be unlike anything you'd ever seen before. 366 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,360 I knew right away we'd made the right decision with Schaffner... 367 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,880 ...when I saw how he was shooting that sequence. He hit it. 368 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,480 (Roddy McDowall) Helping to create an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere... 369 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,600 ...was the experimental music score composed by Jerry Goldsmith. 370 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,840 Goldsmith utilised unusual instruments, like metal mixing bowls... 371 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,040 ...a ram's horn... 372 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,320 ...and a Brazilian cuica, which could recreate eight vocalisations. 373 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,960 At the conclusion of the hunt... 374 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,560 ...Taylor is taken captive. 375 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,160 - Smile. - (all chuckle) 376 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,880 Now a prisoner of the apes... 377 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,160 ...Taylor attempts to make contact with a sympathetic female chimpanzee... 378 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:39,240 ...named Dr Zira. 379 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,840 Well, Bright Eyes. ls our throat feeling better? 380 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,280 That Bright Eyes is remarkable. 381 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,120 He keeps trying to form words. 382 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320 You know what they say. Human see, human do. 383 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,440 Zira was played by Kim Hunter... 384 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,920 ...best known for her Academy Award-winning performance as Stella... 385 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,200 ...in A Streetcar Named Desire. 386 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,320 My agent sent me a copy of the script... 387 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,040 ...wanted to know whether I was interested, should he pursue it. 388 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,120 And I thought it was fascinating. 389 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:18,920 Eventually it came through and they flew me out to LA for the costume tests. 390 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,200 So I figured I'd be going to the costume department, right? 391 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,960 No. Went to John Chambers' department. 392 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,880 And I couldn't believe it. What we had to go through to get all of that on. 393 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,920 It took about five hours, the first time. 394 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,520 Not only in appliances, but all the other stuff that went with it. 395 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,200 The wig. We had fur on our hands. 396 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,400 I had to wear brown nail polish. 397 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,880 The only thing that was not covered in some way or another were my eyeballs. 398 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,120 We then, you know, did tests out in front of camera. 399 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:04,520 People asked me a lot "As an actress, didn't it bother you that they couldn't see you?" 400 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,720 Well, they saw the character I was playing. That's all I care about. 401 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,240 Julius! 402 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,120 I loved the character - Dr Zira. 403 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,920 - I told you what you'd get! - Julius, don't hurt him! 404 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000 And I thought the script had much to say. 405 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Julius! 406 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:28,440 Everybody seems afraid around those creatures that are different from us. 407 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,880 Natural-born thieves, aren't they? 408 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,120 Zira, as a psychologist, of course, was interested in finding out about them. 409 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,760 Get me a collar and leash. 410 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,960 (Roddy McDowall) Another leading ape role was that of Cornelius... 411 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,720 ...Zira's archaeologist husband. 412 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,920 What about your theory? 413 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,040 The existence of someone like Taylor might prove it. 414 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,040 Do you want to get my head chopped off? 415 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,880 A missing link between the unevolved primate... 416 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,640 - ...and the ape. - (Taylor bangs table) 417 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,720 - Touchy, isn't he? - Hm. 418 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,320 "I am not a missing link." 419 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,920 Well, if he were a missing link, the sacred scrolls wouldn't be worth their parchment. 420 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,720 Well, maybe they're not. 421 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,920 (laughs) Oh, no, thank you. I'm not going to get into that battle. 422 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,640 (Roddy McDowall) Jacobs personally offered me the part of Cornelius... 423 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,480 ...on a plane flight back from London. 424 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,240 I accepted immediately, intrigued by the technical challenge... 425 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,760 ...of acting inside the elaborate ape makeup. 426 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:56,680 I remember Roddy McDowall saying that the trick for acting behind those makeups... 427 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,600 ...was to overact with your face. 428 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,760 Then it would bleed through the makeup. 429 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,840 (Kim Hunter) If we didn't keep the appliances moving... 430 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,480 ...they began to look like masks. 431 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,360 I got very used to making them move all the time. 432 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,680 We were doing all kinds of crazy things with our face all the time, to keep them moving. 433 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,520 Roddy and I had to kiss. And we had no sense of feeling. 434 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,280 We had to really work hard to make it look as if we were properly kissing each other... 435 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,240 ...without squishing the appliances. 436 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,240 Cornelius! 437 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,680 Man has no understanding. 438 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,680 He can be taught a few simple tricks. Nothing more. 439 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:49,040 To suggest that we can learn anything about the simian nature... 440 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,760 ...from the study of man is sheer nonsense. 441 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,360 (Roddy McDowall) One of the pivotal ape characters in the film was Dr Zaius... 442 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,520 ...the elder orangutan statesman. 443 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,600 Inheriting the role after Edward G Robinson's departure... 444 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,720 ...was the noted Shakespearean stage and screen actor, Maurice Evans. 445 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,560 (Richard Xanuck) People said "Why spend all the money on the actors?" 446 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,920 "You never see their faces." 447 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,400 To be convincing... 448 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,800 ...and for the idea to work, we had to have great actors. 449 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,520 People weren't expecting for a science fiction picture... 450 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,320 ...to find that kind of talent. 451 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,040 And I think that was surprising and impressive to audiences. 452 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,280 And it certainly lent to the credibility of the piece. 453 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:44,400 You hear their voices, and it's their delivery. That was the key - unmistakable. Voices. 454 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,480 Man is a nuisance. 455 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,920 He eats up his food supplies in the forest... 456 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,720 ...then migrates to our green belts and ravages our crops. 457 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,320 The sooner he is exterminated the better. 458 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:04,800 The role of Taylor... 459 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,920 ...was one of the most physically demanding of Charlton Heston's career. 460 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,840 In Planet of the Apes he's running around half-naked half the time. 461 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,560 He's getting beaten up by gorillas. 462 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,120 He's burned, he's almost lobotomised, castrated, almost killed. 463 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,520 Charlton Heston is not having his best day on Planet of the Apes. 464 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,880 If you look at a lot of Charlton Heston's earlier films... 465 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,600 ...he's often playing these larger-than-life characters. 466 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,000 And he's a tremendous hero and vision of strength. 467 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,200 But in Planet of the Apes, all that's out the window... 468 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,960 and the audience's point of identification changed. 469 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:50,000 The Charlton Heston hero, who used to be counted on to win the day... 470 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,360 ...all of a sudden is in a much more precarious position. 471 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,560 (ape screams) 472 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,720 So there's this sense of things aren't as secure and stable as we thought they were. 473 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,360 (gunshot) 474 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,440 Actors should be able to accept the circumstances... 475 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,080 ...the premises of whatever project they're doing. 476 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,680 But it was a very unusual acting challenge. Painful. 477 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,800 So I could run apparently barefoot - 478 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,520 they had rubber booties that were moulded to be feet - 479 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:30,280 and that protected me from thorns. 480 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,080 We were doing some stuff where I'm running through the shrubbery... 481 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,160 ...and people are throwing things at me. 482 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,680 And I said to Joe Canutt, who doubled me... 483 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,200 ..."Would you mind just doing these last couple of run-throughs?" He says "No." 484 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:51,320 I said "What do you mean?" He said "You've been working all afternoon in poison ivy." 485 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:56,520 And so I was! He says "You'll notice it tomorrow." And I did! 486 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,160 (Roddy McDowall) Exhausted by the relentless schedule... 487 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,600 ...and subjected to extremes in temperature... 488 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:08,720 ...Heston came down with a bad case of the flu just before shooting this scene. 489 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,800 Fortunately, the actor's hoarse voice actually enhanced his performance. 490 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,800 - Taylor! Why did you run away? - Security police. 491 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,880 I'm in charge of this man. 492 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,840 He is in the custody of the ministry of science. 493 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,680 Take your stinking paws off me... 494 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,120 ...you damn dirty ape! 495 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,040 No one'll listen to me. 496 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,320 Only you. 497 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,320 You. 498 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,240 Nova. 499 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,120 You... Nova. 500 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,320 No... 501 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,840 Yeah. Me Tarzan, you Jane. 502 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,240 (Roddy McDowall) The role of Nova, Taylor's mate, went to lovely Linda Harrison. 503 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,720 Linda, a former beauty queen... 504 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,320 ...had made an appearance in the original Apes test film as Zira. 505 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,320 I was under contract at Fox and... 506 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,200 ...I was also dating the head of the studio, Richard Zanuck. 507 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,120 And he said "I think there might be a part for you in it." 508 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,920 So I eventually got the part of Nova. 509 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,520 Everybody that was involved in it... 510 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,200 ...they all realised that I was a neophyte. 511 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,280 I was, like, 21 years old. So they kind of took me under their wing. 512 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:57,640 Since I hadn't done acting that much, I think I went instinctively with her. 513 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,200 I thought about animal instincts. 514 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,480 The way she would move and react would be more like an animal would react... 515 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,560 ...more from fear... 516 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,760 Where are you taking her? 517 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,920 ...and would seem to be what the director wanted. 518 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,920 Damn you! You hairy scum! 519 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,760 Shut up, you freak! 520 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,720 - Julius, you... - I said shut up! 521 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,920 It's a madhouse! 522 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,920 A madhouse! 523 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,880 (Roddy McDowall) The Ape City and its surroundings... 524 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,800 ...were constructed on the Fox Malibu ranch. 525 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,160 Urethane foam was just getting started in the film business... 526 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,920 ...and to be able to spray this foam in shapes and carve it. 527 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,720 So we dreamed up a system... 528 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:54,640 ...where we would sculpt the building out of pencil-rod metal and weld it all up. 529 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,120 And then we would cover the building with cardboard and then get inside that structure... 530 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,400 ...and spray the foam against the cardboard and let it set up... 531 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:10,160 ...and then peel the cardboard off so it left this sort of cement, but in these odd forms. 532 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,680 And I remember coming across an article by MIT a year or two later... 533 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:20,400 ...how they'd come up with this system, and we'd already put it in the movies. 534 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,640 Do you acknowledge kinship with any of these creatures? 535 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,720 - With one of them, yes. - Identify him, then. Speak to him. 536 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,480 Landon? 537 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,320 Landon. 538 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,120 You did it. 539 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,760 You cut up his brain, you bloody baboon! 540 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,960 (president) Stop him! 541 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,680 Comparative to the makeup for the apes... 542 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,240 ...there were other makeup challenges on this film. 543 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,680 Take him inside! 544 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:11,000 They're small things, but I wanted to make sure they were realistic. 545 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:17,880 For instance, there was this one astronaut. The apes took him and gave him a lobotomy. 546 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:23,520 I went to my medical histories and books of surgery. 547 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,120 And I knew what the lobotomy scars looked like. Minor things like that. 548 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,520 Small, but done right. 549 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:39,680 (Roddy McDowall) But it was the ape makeup that created the biggest logistical problems. 550 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,520 Up to 80 makeup artists, hairstylists and wardrobe personnel... 551 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,720 ...were required for scenes involving as many as 200 apes. 552 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,960 The number of craftsman utilised resulted in other Hollywood films being delayed... 553 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,840 ...due to the unavailability of qualified makeup artists. 554 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,680 The principal actors got new appliances every day. 555 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,680 So I taught everyone how to run the foam rubber. 556 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,360 I had 'em workin' night and day for some weeks... 557 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,000 ...to run enough rubber so we had enough to go around. 558 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,000 (Roddy McDowall) Eventually the makeup process... 559 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,840 ...which had originally taken up to six hours... 560 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,400 ...was streamlined to a mere three. 561 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,880 But I had people that I had trained in my laboratory... 562 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,080 ...and it flowed just like an assembly line. 563 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,760 They knew what they were doing. 564 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,280 (Roddy McDowall) Actors had refrigerated trailers to preserve appliances between shots. 565 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,920 We had to be very careful. In those days, of course, many people smoked. 566 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,920 And so we were all presented with cigarette holders... 567 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,440 ...to keep the cigarettes far enough away from us. 568 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:59,520 And had to look into the mirror as we ate so we didn't destroy the appliances at lunch. 569 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,920 (John Chambers) The actor's chin would pop loose if it was overworked. 570 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,800 So we used to say, when lunch would come... 571 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,440 ..."Don't get any hard foods that you have to chew. Get milkshakes, soft foods." 572 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,840 And when they'd come back from lunch... 573 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,520 ...the lower chin'd be layin' down, and there was a... 574 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,920 ...a sac in there, you know - a space. 575 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,520 And there would be peas and carrots in 'em. 576 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,480 I didn't mind. It didn't take much time to put 'em back on. 577 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:39,080 (Roddy McDowall) Many on the set noticed another unusual lunchtime occurrence. 578 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,360 There was kind of a self-segregation. The gorillas would all eat at one table... 579 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,720 ...the chimpanzees would eat at another, and the orangutans would eat at another. 580 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,480 I have no explanation for that whatsoever. But it was true. 581 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,280 The gorillas sort of hung together and the chimps did and... 582 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,360 I didn't really talk to Maurice Evans much, as a matter of fact... 583 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,120 ...while we were on the set together. 584 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,720 And I knew him fairly well but... he was an orangutan. One of those others. 585 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,640 The actors were never conscious of it. 586 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,920 They just drifted to their companions. To their... 587 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,120 To the same... 588 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,920 ...groupings as in the film. 589 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:26,880 Fascinating. 590 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,200 (Roddy McDowall) Ironically, the issues of class separation and prejudice... 591 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,400 ...are one of the film's main themes. 592 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,320 You promised to speak to Dr Xaius about me. 593 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,280 I did. You know how he looks down his nose at chimpanzees. 594 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,280 The ape's society is given a distinct class structure. 595 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,880 The orangutans are the politicians. 596 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,280 Learned judges, my case is simple. 597 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,200 It is based on our first article of faith. 598 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,600 That the Almighty created the ape in his own image. 599 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,000 The chimpanzees are the scientists and intellectuals. 600 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,720 I discovered evidence... 601 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,120 ...of a simian culture that existed long before the sacred scrolls were written. 602 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,360 The gorillas are the labourers and the military enforcers. 603 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,440 It was an allegorical device... 604 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:20,720 ...used by the filmmakers to make some pointed observations about human society. 605 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,320 Why are all apes created equal? 606 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:27,200 Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others. 607 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,480 Michael Wilson said the key point of Planet of the Apes... 608 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,040 ...was that it was more about the human predicament than about apes. 609 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:37,040 When Wilson wrote the final Planet of the Apes script... 610 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:41,520 ...he brought much more of a political edge to it, reflecting his own experience: 611 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,040 being blacklisted during the McCarthy era. 612 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:47,280 The question is: have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? 613 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,520 You refuse to answer that question? 614 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,520 - I have told you that I will... - All right. 615 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,960 - Stand away from the stand. - ...fight for the Bill of Rights... 616 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,280 Take this man away from the stand. 617 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,520 - My name is Taylor! - Bailiff! Silence the animal! 618 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:04,920 Probably the best example of Wilson's political perspective is the trial scene... 619 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,800 ...where basically it's an inquisition that's held against Zira and Cornelius and Taylor. 620 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,880 By your leave, Mr President... 621 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,160 ...this tribunal has not yet defined the purpose for this inquiry. 622 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:21,280 At the very least, this man has the right to know whether there's a charge against him. 623 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:26,080 The accused is a non-ape and therefore has no rights under ape law. 624 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,360 Then why is he called the accused? 625 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,640 Your Honours must think him guilty of something. 626 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,680 Let us warn our friends... 627 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,720 ...that they endanger their own careers by defending this animal. 628 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,600 (Richard Xanuck) I saw this more as an adventure piece. 629 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:46,280 I didn't see it as any kind of breakthrough piece, either politically, socially... 630 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:51,160 People have dissected it and added a lot of layers of meaning to it... 631 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:57,080 ...that we... at least I, as the head of the studio, never thought of. 632 00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,240 You didn't want the audience to go up the aisle... 633 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,720 ...thinking anything but that they'd been entertained. 634 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,720 Maybe I was... in the dark. 635 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,280 Maybe there was some kind of hidden message... 636 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:16,520 ...that Michael Wilson and Arthur Jacobs and these guys were trying to sneak through. 637 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:18,760 But I never saw it like that at all. 638 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,200 Without ever saying it... 639 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,720 ...we were doing a political film. 640 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,080 We never even said it very loudly among ourselves... 641 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,800 ...because at that time we were in Vietnam. 642 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,120 And a political picture was the last kind of film that the studio wanted. 643 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,720 The country was having very serious problems. 644 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,320 (Eric Greene) We had the assassination of John Kennedy. 645 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,760 We had the assassination of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther king Jr. 646 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,640 Race riots. 647 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,680 There were a lot of shocks to America's image of itself... 648 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,280 ...and to America's sense of itself as a kind of stable democracy. 649 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,440 Dr Xaius... 650 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,800 ...I know who I am. 651 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,880 But who are you? 652 00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:11,040 How in hell did this upside-down civilisation get started? 653 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:14,400 Huh! You may well call it upside-down... 654 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,200 ...since you occupy its lowest level. And deservedly so. 655 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:24,120 Science fiction can be a way of presenting controversial material... 656 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,600 ...without the material being attacked as controversial... 657 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,280 ...because it is slightly disguised. 658 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,040 You can hear "All humans look alike to most apes" or "Human see, human do". 659 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,160 And you can laugh it off if you want to. 660 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,240 But at the same time you can let it sink in as far as: 661 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,120 what is this saying about how groups interact... 662 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,200 ...and how people in power view people who aren't in power? 663 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,800 You can cut pieces out of me. You've got the power. 664 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,200 Return this creature to his cage. 665 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,160 But you do it out of fear! 666 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,800 Remember that! Because you're afraid of me! What are you afraid of, Doctor? 667 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,600 (Roddy McDowall) But serious thematic content on the screen... 668 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,440 ...did not prohibit a sense of fun on the set. 669 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,680 (Charlton Heston) I remember when we did the courtroom scene... 670 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,120 ...where they take the filthy loincloth. 671 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,600 These rags he's wearing give off a stench that's offensive. 672 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,880 I think that was my first nude scene... 673 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,640 ...and when they were setting up the shot... 674 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,400 ...one of the coffee girls passing coffee around walked behind me and said... 675 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,600 ..."Mm, nice buns!" 676 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,040 The lighting people would speak of us as monkeys... 677 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:35,320 ...and then they'd kid us with... bringing us bananas. 678 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,320 I got to hate bananas during the course of the film! 679 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:46,720 There was a famous day when the gorillas were being made up at the studio... 680 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,880 ...and then hauled out to Fox Ranch in a station wagon. 681 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:56,040 And they took over from the driver one day and they pushed him down in the back seat. 682 00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:00,440 So you have this gorilla drivin' the station wagon down PCH... 683 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,160 ...you know, stoppin' traffic. 684 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:08,360 (Roddy McDowall) An off-the-cuff gag on the set between Heston and Schaffner... 685 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,760 ...resulted in one of the film's most famous scenes. 686 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,840 Let us assume that the prisoner's story is false. 687 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,360 But if he did not come from another planet... 688 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,640 ...then surely he sprang from our own. 689 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,680 While shooting this sequence, the star joked... 690 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:31,600 ...that the director should film the ape tribunal performing the oldest of simian clichés. 691 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:36,960 I have found no physiological defect to explain why humans are mute. 692 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,040 - Objection! - Sustained! 693 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:44,280 (Zira) Their speech organs are adequate. The flaw lies not in anatomy, but in the brain. 694 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,360 - Objection! - Sustained! 695 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,200 (Mort Abrahams) Frank said "I want you to see this." 696 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,440 This was the examination before the three judges. 697 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,920 And of course, when the executives looked at it, they said "Oh, my God!" 698 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:05,960 And Frank said "You think it's too much?" Then of course it appears in the final version. 699 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:09,440 (Roddy McDowall) Schaffner had a very specific vision for the film. 700 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,280 And its success owed much to his considerable abilities as a director. 701 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,280 He was a visionary. He was underrated as a director. 702 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,280 This really was his first step up. 703 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,800 We took a chance, really, because he hadn't done anything. 704 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,440 At least, I hadn't seen anything that indicated that he could give it scope and meaning. 705 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:36,160 And that's what it's all about. There's a lot of guys that are technically competent... 706 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:42,280 ...but don't have a real vision, or enthusiasm. But he did. 707 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:44,280 (ape) Grab him! 708 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,120 (Roddy McDowall) As the film draws to its conclusion, Taylor escapes. 709 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,040 - Who are you? - So you can talk! 710 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:57,040 I'm Dr Xira's nephew. This abduction was her idea. 711 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,120 Cornelius! 712 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,640 He is pursued to an archaeological site in the forbidden zone. 713 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,880 - Lucius, don't fire at them! - You're all under arrest! 714 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,400 If there's any more shooting, Dr Xaius, you'll be the first to go. You can count on it. 715 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,040 There, an amazing discovery is made. 716 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:24,120 One that challenges the ape's dominant role. 717 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,920 You say these things were found at the same level as that doll? 718 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,040 Whoever owned them must have been in pretty bad shape. 719 00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:33,800 He wore false teeth. 720 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,040 And eyeglasses. 721 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:39,120 I don't say he was a man like I knew at home... 722 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,600 ...but he must have been a close relative. He had all the same weaknesses. 723 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,040 He was a weak... 724 00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:48,200 ...fragile animal. 725 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,440 But he was here before you... 726 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,600 - ...and he was better than you are. - That's lunacy! 727 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,640 (doll) Mama! 728 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,680 (doll) Mama! 729 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,440 Dr Xaius, would an ape make a human doll... 730 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:13,880 ...that talks? 731 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,760 It was a conflict of civilisations, if you like. 732 00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,200 What interested me particularly about it... 733 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,320 ...was the dichotomy of Taylor's character. 734 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,920 He was a harsh, embittered man... 735 00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,720 ...who had become so disenchanted with his civilisation... 736 00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,360 ...that he literally leaves the earth. 737 00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,000 You who are reading me now are a different breed. 738 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:45,720 I hope a better one. 739 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:52,680 And then he finds himself in an alien planet populated by apes. 740 00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:59,720 And he is alone required to defend humankind. 741 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,240 I oughta kill you right now. 742 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:03,440 Come on! 743 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,280 It's an interesting dichotomy and I... 744 00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,560 ...I tried to get as much out of it as I could. 745 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,200 (Roddy McDowall) The final scenes were shot on the California coastline. 746 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,800 At Zuma Beach near Malibu. 747 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:25,160 Here, Taylor manages to subdue Dr Zaius and they face off in one final confrontation. 748 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,640 Don't try to follow us. I'm pretty handy with this. 749 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,720 Of that I'm sure. 750 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:36,360 All my life I've awaited your coming and dreaded it, like death itself. 751 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,600 Why? 752 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,360 I've terrified you from the first, Doctor. I still do. 753 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,400 You're afraid of me and you hate me. Why? 754 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,840 Because you're a man. 755 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:48,520 And you're right. 756 00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:51,920 I have always known about man. 757 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:58,720 From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand in hand with his idiocy. 758 00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,200 His emotions must rule his brain. 759 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,120 He must be a warlike creature who gives battle... 760 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,200 ...to everything around him, even himself. 761 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,600 What evidence? There were no weapons in that cave. 762 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,960 The forbidden zone was once a paradise. 763 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,400 Your breed made a desert of it... ages ago. 764 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,600 It still doesn't give me the why. 765 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,720 A planet where apes evolved from men. 766 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,960 There's gotta be an answer. 767 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,280 Don't look for it, Taylor. 768 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,560 You may not like what you find. 769 00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:39,920 The film's ending was a source of controversy for the studio and filmmakers. 770 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,000 Shot, but later deleted, was a sequence revealing Nova's pregnancy. 771 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,280 We decided that the structure would be badly affected... 772 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,040 ...changing her situation to a specific such as her being pregnant... 773 00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,360 ...cos you have to follow through. 774 00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,440 If she's pregnant, that becomes an element of the story. 775 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,720 And now we're off to... something else entirely. 776 00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,000 If Taylor and Nova have a child, will that child be able to speak? 777 00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,880 Will that child have the same kind of intelligence as Taylor? 778 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,600 What if they breed a new race of intelligent humans? What could happen then? 779 00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,080 But when you take that notion out... 780 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,320 ...then this whole question about humans being able to have some kind of rebirth... 781 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:28,920 ...gets eliminated, because really they weren't telling a story of possible salvation. 782 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:43,960 (Roddy McDowall) The ending that was used... 783 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:48,800 ...had its genesis in one of Rod Serling's early script drafts. 784 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,040 It proved to be one of the most surprising... 785 00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:56,720 ...memorable and chilling climaxes in motion-picture history. 786 00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,320 Oh, my God! 787 00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,080 I'm back! 788 00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,320 I'm home. 789 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,160 All the time, it was... 790 00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,320 We finally really did it. 791 00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,520 You maniacs! 792 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,120 You blew it up! 793 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,640 God damn you! 794 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,520 God damn you all to hell! 795 00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:43,440 (Eric Greene) That final image is one of the most memorable scenes of '60s cinema. 796 00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:49,360 The American hero is standing in front of this fallen icon of American expectation. 797 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:53,600 And it really speaks to this sense of all America's aspirations... 798 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:58,440 ...the self-image that we had as defenders of liberty and the beacon of hope. 799 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,840 All of that now is laid waste - literally. It's in ruins. 800 00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,920 It was really designed not to send a message... 801 00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:15,080 ...but to throw in a big surprise, from an audience standpoint. 802 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,520 So they say "Oh, my goodness! Look where we've been all this time!" 803 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,800 (Roddy McDowall) The haunting image of a decayed Statue of Liberty... 804 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,320 ...entails some interesting technical challenges. 805 00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,920 We found a location at the end of Zuma Beach, which was about the right scale... 806 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,120 ...and it had rocks with moss on 'em on the end of the beach... 807 00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:42,520 ...that looked kind of like disintegrated... bronze, or whatever. 808 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,360 So we integrated those rocks with the base of the statue... 809 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:52,720 ...which was a painting by Emil Kosa, who was chief matte artist at the studio. 810 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,240 And Frank was lamenting that he just didn't want to cut to the master shot. 811 00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:03,080 He wanted to introduce the statue, but you don't know what it is. 812 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:08,920 And so I had envisioned, you know, being up on the bluff on a dolly track... 813 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,440 ...and shooting down over a foreground miniature. 814 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:17,920 And what it entailed was building the head and the torch, one half full-scale. 815 00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,120 I had the grips build a tower... 816 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,320 ...70 feet high... 817 00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,040 ...to get the right perspective. 818 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:32,320 Leon Shamroy was the cameraman and Leon was close to 70... 819 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,880 ...and he looked at this 70-foot tower and he says "I'm not goin' up there." 820 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,800 So he didn't go up there. 821 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:45,440 And the first assistant director was... had acrophobia. He wasn't goin' up there. 822 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:50,200 Frank handed me the megaphone. He says "You build it. I'll meet you at the top." 823 00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:55,320 So Frank and I went up and made the shot. The rest was history. 824 00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,440 (Roddy McDowall) Shooting was completed on August 10th, 1967... 825 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:05,720 ...with the production coming in on time and on budget. 826 00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,520 (trailer) Charlton Heston. 827 00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,080 The world he finds out in the galaxy... 828 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,440 ...will challenge every idea you've ever had of civilisation. 829 00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,360 A planet where man is the lowest order of living things... 830 00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,800 ...and the superior beings are... apes. 831 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:30,800 (Roddy McDowall) Planet of the Apes had its world premiere on February 8th, 1968. 832 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,640 It was a box-office smash, grossing over $26 million... 833 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,480 ...and reaching audiences of all ages. 834 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:42,280 They build the cities, make the laws. The Gods. 835 00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,120 Adults responded to its intelligent script and first-rate performances. 836 00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,800 Man has no understanding. 837 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,120 Children thrilled to the film's adventure and fantasy elements. 838 00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:56,320 Twentieth Century Fox transforms the motion-picture screen into... 839 00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:01,160 The film also found favour with critics, who praised its uniqueness... 840 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,520 ...timely political commentary and entertainment value. 841 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,120 Beyond your wildest dreams. 842 01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:18,040 Planet of the Apes was nominated for two Academy Awards. 843 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:22,320 Best Costume Design and Best Original Score. 844 01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,880 But special Academy recognition was reserved... 845 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,120 ...for the innovative makeup wizard, John Chambers... 846 01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,080 ...who was awarded a special Oscar... 847 01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,880 ...for his outstanding achievement on Planet of the Apes. 848 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,520 The award was presented to him by Walter Matthau... 849 01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,160 ...and friend. 850 01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,600 It's a madhouse! 851 01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,600 It's a madhouse! A madhouse! It's a madhouse! 852 01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:57,320 Planet of the Apes had reached a pinnacle of success that no one could have predicted. 853 01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,320 It was now officially a phenomenon. 854 01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:05,240 With audience interest at its peak, a meeting was called at Twentieth Century Fox... 855 01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,840 ...between the producers and elated studio executives. 856 01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,880 Stan Huff, head of production, says "You gotta do a sequel." 857 01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,680 I said "Stan, there's no way we can do a sequel. There's no place to go." 858 01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,360 I don't wanna do a thing on Mars. 859 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,920 He said "You have to find a way." 860 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,160 I had never thought of a sequel. 861 01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,200 At the time of Planet of the Apes... 862 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,920 ...no one was talking sequels very much, or at all. 863 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,520 For Twentieth Century Fox, at that period of time... 864 01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:44,120 ...this started the notion of recapturing the success of the first. 865 01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,800 As thoughts inevitably turned towards a sequel... 866 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,200 ...the producers faced an impossible challenge. 867 01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:56,600 That half-buried Statue of Liberty had become a cinematic and cultural milestone... 868 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,720 ...and it cast a very long shadow. 869 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:04,120 How could anyone go beyond the film's apocalyptic vision? 870 01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,080 How could they go beyond the Planet of the Apes? 871 01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,800 With studio pressure mounting for a sequel... 872 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:18,800 ...Jacobs returned to two of the men who had helped make the original film so successful... 873 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,720 ...Rod Serling and Pierre Boulle. 874 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:27,320 During the next few months, both men submitted a wide range of proposals. 875 01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:29,360 Jacobs rejected them all... 876 01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,960 ...feeling the concepts did not provide the kind of visual shocks... 877 01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,920 ...that had made the original so successful. 878 01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,440 Planet of the Apes was indeed proving a hard act to follow... 879 01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,440 ...until associate producer Mort Abrahams went to London... 880 01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:51,320 ...and met with Academy Award-winning screenwriter and poet Paul Dehn. 881 01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:55,600 Dehn was known for his work on Cold War suspense thrillers... 882 01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,400 ...like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. 883 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,600 He was also famous for co-writing the James Bond classic, Goldfiinger. 884 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,040 I was in London on something else entirely, and met with Paul... 885 01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:13,200 ...and told him frankly I was having trouble with this development of this idea. 886 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,440 He said "Let me toss it around." 887 01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:21,720 He called me two or three days Later and said "I think I have an idea how to do this." 888 01:03:23,980 --> 01:03:26,020 (Roddy McDowall) Working with Abrahams... 889 01:03:26,220 --> 01:03:30,380 ...he submitted his first outline in September 1968. 890 01:03:30,580 --> 01:03:32,460 Called Planet of the Apes Revisited... 891 01:03:32,660 --> 01:03:37,260 ...it contained many ideas that would find their way into the final film... 892 01:03:37,460 --> 01:03:39,980 ...and one that would not: 893 01:03:40,380 --> 01:03:46,740 the conception of a half-ape, half-human child, seen here in a rare screen test. 894 01:03:46,940 --> 01:03:50,620 Curiously, the studio feared that the implied mating of species... 895 01:03:50,820 --> 01:03:55,380 ...could lose the film a G rating and take away their family audience. 896 01:03:56,700 --> 01:04:01,020 With Franklin Schaffner already committed to Fox's big-budget epic, Patton... 897 01:04:01,220 --> 01:04:07,740 ...the job was given to veteran film and television director Ted Post. 898 01:04:07,940 --> 01:04:13,180 But just after Post signed to direct the new Apes film, he threatened to resign... 899 01:04:13,380 --> 01:04:17,140 ...when told that Charlton Heston was unwilling to return as Taylor. 900 01:04:17,340 --> 01:04:21,500 I had told Arthur that I don't think that a sequel will hold... 901 01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:24,220 ...without the original star being in it. 902 01:04:24,420 --> 01:04:28,500 And they took a little bit of time to scratch their heads about that... 903 01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:34,500 ...and finally came up with a solution which hooked Chuck Heston back into the sequel. 904 01:04:34,700 --> 01:04:40,100 Dick Zanuck called me. He said "Chuck, we have to do a sequel. This film is enormous." 905 01:04:40,300 --> 01:04:44,660 I said "I don't wanna do a sequel. That's like the Andy Hardy series." 906 01:04:44,860 --> 01:04:49,100 And he said "Chuck, I can't make the sequel if you're not in it." 907 01:04:49,300 --> 01:04:52,420 And I said "Well, you got me, Richard... 908 01:04:52,620 --> 01:04:56,660 ...because we couldn't have made this film if you hadn't given it a go." 909 01:04:56,860 --> 01:05:01,460 "So how about if I'm in the sequel but I get killed in the opening scene... 910 01:05:01,660 --> 01:05:06,420 ...and you pay me whatever you want and we'll give it to a school or something?" 911 01:05:06,620 --> 01:05:10,980 He said "Ok, that's a deal." Then, as the script developed, he called and said... 912 01:05:11,180 --> 01:05:15,020 ..."Chuck, how about if we have you disappear in the first scene... 913 01:05:15,220 --> 01:05:17,780 ...and then you're killed in the last scene?" 914 01:05:17,980 --> 01:05:22,020 And I said "Yeah, I guess. Ok, fine. What the heck." 915 01:05:23,860 --> 01:05:29,540 (Roddy McDowall) With the crisis resolved, the production team still faced a final hurdle: 916 01:05:29,740 --> 01:05:33,140 the studio's insistence on a reduced budget. 917 01:05:34,420 --> 01:05:36,860 Since the release of the original Apes film... 918 01:05:37,060 --> 01:05:39,740 ...Fox had undergone a troubled financial period... 919 01:05:39,940 --> 01:05:44,580 ...where a string of big-budget musicals had performed below expectations. 920 01:05:44,780 --> 01:05:47,780 Among them, Arthur Jacobs' Dr Dolittle. 921 01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:53,420 They had a couple of failures, and the board of directors got very anxious about that. 922 01:05:53,620 --> 01:05:57,860 They didn't want to invest any more than they had to. So the order came down: 923 01:05:58,060 --> 01:06:02,260 cut the budgets of every production that was being made at that time. 924 01:06:03,780 --> 01:06:08,980 Settling on a budget of $3 million - barely half that of the original film - 925 01:06:09,180 --> 01:06:14,420 Beneath the Planet of the Apes began filming in February 1969. 926 01:06:14,620 --> 01:06:16,700 Don't look for it, Taylor. 927 01:06:17,500 --> 01:06:19,780 You may not like what you find. 928 01:06:19,980 --> 01:06:23,300 The story picked up exactly where the first film left off. 929 01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:25,740 What will he find out there, Doctor? 930 01:06:25,940 --> 01:06:27,340 His destiny. 931 01:06:27,540 --> 01:06:31,140 Taylor rides off into the forbidden zone, accompanied by Nova... 932 01:06:31,340 --> 01:06:33,580 ...played once again by Linda Harrison. 933 01:06:35,260 --> 01:06:38,140 After encountering a series of strange phenomenon... 934 01:06:38,340 --> 01:06:40,940 ...Taylor mysteriously disappears. 935 01:06:42,460 --> 01:06:45,500 A new leading man then takes centre stage: 936 01:06:45,700 --> 01:06:52,380 Brent, the leader and lone survivor of an astronaut rescue team sent to find Taylor. 937 01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:57,380 Although Burt Reynolds was approached... 938 01:06:57,580 --> 01:07:02,420 ...the producers ultimately cast popular television actor James Franciscus. 939 01:07:02,620 --> 01:07:03,860 Hey! 940 01:07:04,060 --> 01:07:07,060 No. No, no, I don't wanna hurt you. I... 941 01:07:08,620 --> 01:07:10,500 I just wanna know where I am. 942 01:07:10,700 --> 01:07:16,940 When Brent meets Nova, he realises she is his only link to finding his lost comrade. 943 01:07:17,140 --> 01:07:18,780 Taylor! 944 01:07:19,060 --> 01:07:20,660 Is he hurt? Is he alive? 945 01:07:20,860 --> 01:07:26,020 I think they picked Jim because he was like a version - a smaller version - of Heston. 946 01:07:26,580 --> 01:07:30,580 They kinda looked alike, and a very strong voice and... 947 01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:32,700 ...took it very seriously. 948 01:07:32,900 --> 01:07:36,740 You... take me... to Taylor. 949 01:07:37,380 --> 01:07:40,780 (Roddy McDowall) Brent and Nova's search brings them to Ape City... 950 01:07:40,980 --> 01:07:44,140 ...most of which was still standing at the Fox Studio Ranch... 951 01:07:44,340 --> 01:07:46,420 It's a city of apes! 952 01:07:46,620 --> 01:07:50,660 ...allowing the filmmakers to save valuable dollars on set construction. 953 01:07:50,860 --> 01:07:54,700 The only thing that counts in the end is power. 954 01:07:54,900 --> 01:07:57,380 Naked, merciless force! 955 01:07:59,180 --> 01:08:03,340 But budgetary constraints did become evident in crowd scenes like this one... 956 01:08:03,540 --> 01:08:07,860 ...where the background apes were portrayed by extras in pull-over masks. 957 01:08:08,060 --> 01:08:11,740 A cost-cutting device that proved a little too obvious. 958 01:08:12,300 --> 01:08:15,420 The role of the gorilla military leader, General Ursus... 959 01:08:15,620 --> 01:08:18,980 ...was originally offered to Hollywood legend Orson Welles. 960 01:08:19,180 --> 01:08:24,100 But when Welles declined, the noted character actor, James Gregory, stepped in... 961 01:08:24,300 --> 01:08:26,340 ...and gave a rousing performance. 962 01:08:26,540 --> 01:08:28,540 The only good human... 963 01:08:28,740 --> 01:08:30,740 ...is a dead human! 964 01:08:32,900 --> 01:08:34,820 Nova takes Brent into the city... 965 01:08:35,020 --> 01:08:38,860 ...and the audience is reintroduced to some familiar ape faces: 966 01:08:39,060 --> 01:08:41,460 Zira, once again played by Kim Hunter. 967 01:08:41,660 --> 01:08:43,420 Taylor? 968 01:08:43,660 --> 01:08:46,060 No, not... not Taylor. My name's Brent. 969 01:08:46,260 --> 01:08:48,060 You... talked. 970 01:08:48,260 --> 01:08:50,500 And Dr Zaius, played by Maurice Evans. 971 01:08:50,700 --> 01:08:52,620 As minister of science, it is my duty... 972 01:08:52,820 --> 01:08:55,580 ...to find out whether some other form of life exists. 973 01:08:55,780 --> 01:08:59,700 - Where are you going? - Into the forbidden zone, with Ursus. 974 01:09:00,140 --> 01:09:03,860 As fate would have it, I was directing a film in England at the time... 975 01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:06,860 ...and was unable to reprise my role of Cornelius. 976 01:09:07,060 --> 01:09:10,860 The part went instead to British actor David Watson. 977 01:09:11,060 --> 01:09:15,780 With the help of makeup, it was hoped that the audiences wouldn't notice the difference. 978 01:09:15,980 --> 01:09:19,300 If you are caught by the gorillas, you must remember one thing. 979 01:09:19,500 --> 01:09:21,500 - What's that? - Never to speak. 980 01:09:23,180 --> 01:09:26,420 As Brent and Nova go underground in their search for Taylor... 981 01:09:26,620 --> 01:09:30,500 ...the filmmakers hoped to give audiences an even more impressive visual... 982 01:09:30,700 --> 01:09:33,140 ...than the half-buried Statue of Liberty. 983 01:09:33,340 --> 01:09:37,620 Their solution: bury the whole city of New York. 984 01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:40,620 (William Creber) It was done almost for free. 985 01:09:40,820 --> 01:09:42,740 I got photos out of books... 986 01:09:42,940 --> 01:09:47,260 ...and kind of imagined angles that would work... 987 01:09:47,460 --> 01:09:52,420 ...and I wrote a letter to the studio in New York... 988 01:09:52,620 --> 01:09:55,620 ...and asked them to specifically shoot these pictures. 989 01:09:57,780 --> 01:10:01,020 We made big blow-ups and cut 'em up with a razor blade... 990 01:10:01,220 --> 01:10:04,220 ...and then had the matte artist kinda touch 'em up. 991 01:10:04,420 --> 01:10:07,180 And that was our matte shots. 992 01:10:09,460 --> 01:10:12,100 (Roddy McDowall) Here, in the forgotten city,.. 993 01:10:12,300 --> 01:10:15,420 ...Brent and Nova encounter a mutant civilisation. 994 01:10:15,620 --> 01:10:19,820 Genetically altered beings who possess telepathic powers. 995 01:10:20,300 --> 01:10:22,740 Your lips... don't move... 996 01:10:23,540 --> 01:10:24,900 ...but I can hear. 997 01:10:25,100 --> 01:10:26,580 I know what you're thinking. 998 01:10:26,780 --> 01:10:33,340 To save costs, this scene was actually shot on a set previously used in Fox's Hello Dolly. 999 01:10:35,180 --> 01:10:37,500 - (rapid bleeps) - No, wait! Wait a minute! 1000 01:10:39,300 --> 01:10:40,980 I can't understand you... 1001 01:10:41,180 --> 01:10:45,780 By the way, that's Natalie Trundy playing the female mutant, Albina. 1002 01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:49,820 In real life, she was Mrs Arthur P Jacobs. 1003 01:10:50,220 --> 01:10:52,780 Are we to understand that you were in the city of the apes? 1004 01:10:52,980 --> 01:10:55,740 - You're talking. - Certainly we can talk. 1005 01:10:55,940 --> 01:10:58,860 It's a primitive accomplishment. We use it when we must. 1006 01:10:59,060 --> 01:11:00,980 When we sing to our God. 1007 01:11:01,180 --> 01:11:04,100 Another Hello Dolly set was also transformed... 1008 01:11:04,300 --> 01:11:08,820 ...into this chapel, where the mutants pray to a most unusual god. 1009 01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:12,740 The heavens declare the glory of the Bomb... 1010 01:11:12,940 --> 01:11:15,100 ...and the firmament showeth His handiwork. 1011 01:11:15,300 --> 01:11:21,740 - I reveal my inmost self unto my God. - Unto my God. 1012 01:11:23,460 --> 01:11:26,820 The mutant society raised some new and unique makeup challenges... 1013 01:11:27,020 --> 01:11:30,380 ...for director Ted Post and makeup designer John Chambers. 1014 01:11:30,580 --> 01:11:36,060 (Chambers) It looked like tissue that was destroyed by exposure to the atomic bomb. 1015 01:11:36,260 --> 01:11:41,460 It was challenging, how far we should create the mutation. 1016 01:11:44,780 --> 01:11:50,100 (Ted Post) In the makeup room, they showed me all the faces they had in mind... 1017 01:11:50,300 --> 01:11:52,500 ...that would depict a mutant... 1018 01:11:52,700 --> 01:11:55,220 ...with Cyclops one eye and three eyes... 1019 01:11:55,420 --> 01:11:57,580 ...with the ear here, the ear there. 1020 01:11:57,780 --> 01:12:03,780 Everything was kind of jangled, mangled and disjointed, etc. It looked terrible to me. 1021 01:12:05,060 --> 01:12:07,980 So I looked at a book of anatomy, Gray's Anatomy... 1022 01:12:08,180 --> 01:12:12,340 ...and saw a face that had been stripped of the epidermis... 1023 01:12:12,540 --> 01:12:16,340 ...and saw the dermal region, with the vessels and the nerves. 1024 01:12:16,820 --> 01:12:21,300 I said "That's the kind of look I think would make the mutants work for me." 1025 01:12:21,500 --> 01:12:23,580 And they went ahead and made it that way. 1026 01:12:23,780 --> 01:12:27,100 O God, bless, we pray You... 1027 01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:29,020 May the blessing of the Bomb Almighty... 1028 01:12:29,220 --> 01:12:32,740 ...our great army and its supreme commander... 1029 01:12:32,940 --> 01:12:34,580 ...and the fellowship of the Holy Fallout... 1030 01:12:34,780 --> 01:12:36,580 ...on the eve of a holy war... 1031 01:12:36,780 --> 01:12:39,220 ...descend on us all this day... 1032 01:12:39,420 --> 01:12:40,340 Amen. 1033 01:12:43,620 --> 01:12:47,100 (Roddy McDowall) The subtle social satire of the first Apes film... 1034 01:12:47,300 --> 01:12:51,140 ...gave way to more obvious and direct political commentary... 1035 01:12:51,340 --> 01:12:56,100 ...as the apes moved closer to a planned military invasion of the forbidden zone. 1036 01:12:56,300 --> 01:13:00,980 It's the sense of this unnecessary war that the people are being led into... 1037 01:13:01,180 --> 01:13:05,340 ...that the liberal youth and many of the intellectuals are opposed to... 1038 01:13:05,540 --> 01:13:08,340 ...but that the political elite winds up backing. 1039 01:13:08,540 --> 01:13:11,460 There's one scene where there is a chimpanzee protest... 1040 01:13:11,660 --> 01:13:14,500 ...with the chimpanzees carrying protest signs saying... 1041 01:13:14,700 --> 01:13:16,980 - Peace and freedom! - Get 'em out of the way. 1042 01:13:17,220 --> 01:13:20,780 Very much like you would expect to see at the anti-Vietnam rallies. 1043 01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:24,020 Not one of the more subtle uses of political commentary... 1044 01:13:24,220 --> 01:13:28,940 ...but a very direct paralleling of what was going on in the US at the time. 1045 01:13:30,700 --> 01:13:32,700 Advance! 1046 01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:35,140 (Roddy McDowall) The apes declare war... 1047 01:13:35,340 --> 01:13:38,420 ...and a battle between mind and muscle begins. 1048 01:13:42,420 --> 01:13:44,900 Hold your positions! 1049 01:13:53,780 --> 01:13:57,660 Charlton Heston also makes his promised appearance near the end of the film. 1050 01:13:58,300 --> 01:14:01,220 - Taylor! - You're... Brent! 1051 01:14:01,420 --> 01:14:03,420 My God! Taylor! 1052 01:14:05,340 --> 01:14:07,820 And, as the ape-mutant war rages... 1053 01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:14,180 ...the action moves towards its apocalyptic finale. 1054 01:14:16,180 --> 01:14:17,860 Someone at the pillar! 1055 01:14:18,060 --> 01:14:20,340 (cry of pain) 1056 01:14:24,780 --> 01:14:27,420 The ending was suggested by Heston himself... 1057 01:14:27,620 --> 01:14:31,100 ...who was very wary of any more ape sequels. 1058 01:14:31,300 --> 01:14:32,900 It's Doomsday. 1059 01:14:33,100 --> 01:14:38,740 I said "How about if I set off this atom bomb and blow up the whole earth?" 1060 01:14:39,300 --> 01:14:41,100 And they said "That's very good." 1061 01:14:41,300 --> 01:14:44,780 Man is evil, capable of nothing but destruction! 1062 01:14:48,620 --> 01:14:51,300 And I thought, that's the end of the sequels. 1063 01:14:56,100 --> 01:15:00,380 (trailer) The Planet of the Apes was only the beginning. What lies beneath may be the end. 1064 01:15:00,580 --> 01:15:02,580 Released on May 26th, 1970... 1065 01:15:03,020 --> 01:15:06,660 ...Beneath the Planet of the Apes opened to a mixed critical reaction. 1066 01:15:08,300 --> 01:15:10,260 Invade! 1067 01:15:10,460 --> 01:15:12,540 (trailer) The gorillas are on the march. 1068 01:15:12,740 --> 01:15:16,580 Human mutants strike back with new, frightening weapons of the mind. 1069 01:15:16,780 --> 01:15:20,260 But there was no debating its success at the box office. 1070 01:15:20,460 --> 01:15:23,300 The film made $14 million - 1071 01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:25,620 over three times its production cost. 1072 01:15:25,820 --> 01:15:28,580 (trailer) Can a planet long endure, half ape, half human? 1073 01:15:28,780 --> 01:15:31,860 The answer lies Beneath the Planet of the Apes. 1074 01:15:32,060 --> 01:15:33,500 Rated G. 1075 01:15:33,700 --> 01:15:39,140 I'd say we were moderately successful. I don't know whether that's all we could have been. 1076 01:15:39,340 --> 01:15:40,940 But I think that's all we were. 1077 01:15:41,140 --> 01:15:46,140 Which is not to downplay the project at all, but to be honest about it. 1078 01:15:47,420 --> 01:15:51,180 The surprise of the first picture was not to be topped. 1079 01:15:52,180 --> 01:15:54,060 With Beneath the Planet of the Apes... 1080 01:15:54,260 --> 01:15:58,100 ...the ape saga now seemed to have reached a logical conclusion. 1081 01:15:58,300 --> 01:16:01,980 The prophecies of the apes' sacred scrolls had come true. 1082 01:16:02,180 --> 01:16:06,060 The beast man had wielded his final weapon of destruction. 1083 01:16:06,260 --> 01:16:09,860 But, just four months after the film's release,.. 1084 01:16:10,060 --> 01:16:14,540 ...screenwriter Paul Dehn received a telegram from Arthur Jacobs. 1085 01:16:14,740 --> 01:16:17,820 "Apes exist. Sequel required." 1086 01:16:18,780 --> 01:16:23,100 Dehn was now faced with a seemingly insurmountable task. 1087 01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:26,700 How do you carry on after you've blown up the world? 1088 01:16:29,980 --> 01:16:34,340 While puzzling over the problem of how to create a third Apes adventure... 1089 01:16:34,540 --> 01:16:39,420 ...Paul Dehn thought of astronaut Taylor's spaceship from the first film. 1090 01:16:44,180 --> 01:16:45,780 It gave him an idea. 1091 01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:50,260 - All right, open her up. - Open it up! 1092 01:16:50,460 --> 01:16:55,580 What if, just prior to the world's destruction in Beneath the Planet of the Apes... 1093 01:16:55,780 --> 01:16:59,780 ...the abandoned craft had somehow been salvaged and repaired? 1094 01:16:59,980 --> 01:17:01,940 Now the story could move forward... 1095 01:17:02,140 --> 01:17:04,540 Welcome, gentlemen, to the United St... 1096 01:17:06,180 --> 01:17:08,460 ...by bringing the apes back in time. 1097 01:17:08,660 --> 01:17:11,260 And, through the magic of science fiction... 1098 01:17:11,460 --> 01:17:15,940 ...that's exactly what happened in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. 1099 01:17:17,060 --> 01:17:19,620 This time I was able to take the role of Cornelius... 1100 01:17:19,820 --> 01:17:23,220 ...with Kim Hunter also returning as my wife, Zira. 1101 01:17:23,980 --> 01:17:28,060 There was also a third ape accompanying us on the journey: Dr Milo. 1102 01:17:28,260 --> 01:17:33,660 He was played by Sal Mineo, acclaimed for his role in Rebel Without a Cause. 1103 01:17:35,020 --> 01:17:39,540 Having only three apes made sense storywise... and budgetwise. 1104 01:17:39,740 --> 01:17:42,700 The number of makeups and effects was greatly reduced... 1105 01:17:42,900 --> 01:17:47,260 ...and made it no problem to work within the film's $2.5 million budget. 1106 01:17:47,460 --> 01:17:50,580 Because number two did not do as well as number one did... 1107 01:17:50,780 --> 01:17:54,500 ...number three should then not probably do as well as number two did. 1108 01:17:54,700 --> 01:17:58,860 So you've got to look at something more contained, which is what we tried to do. 1109 01:17:59,060 --> 01:18:00,820 Action! A little more on the left! 1110 01:18:01,460 --> 01:18:04,580 (Roddy McDowall) Filming began on November 30th, 1970... 1111 01:18:04,780 --> 01:18:06,620 ...under the direction of Don Taylor. 1112 01:18:06,820 --> 01:18:09,980 Hey, Bill Creber, take your cue on action! 1113 01:18:12,300 --> 01:18:17,500 You must realise that mine was the third film of this particular series... 1114 01:18:17,700 --> 01:18:20,140 ...and I inherited everything, practically. 1115 01:18:20,340 --> 01:18:23,220 I inherited the two actors, Roddy and Kim... 1116 01:18:23,580 --> 01:18:26,980 ...who certainly knew more about the characters than I did. 1117 01:18:27,180 --> 01:18:31,900 The only thing that I didn't inherit was the plot. It was different. It was fresh. 1118 01:18:32,780 --> 01:18:37,140 (Roddy McDowall) The story showed the ape-onauts brought back to a laboratory... 1119 01:18:37,340 --> 01:18:40,260 ...and put under scientific examination. 1120 01:18:40,460 --> 01:18:43,780 The two animal psychiatrists were played by Bradford Dillman... 1121 01:18:43,980 --> 01:18:49,300 ...and Natalie Trundy, now making her second appearance in an Apes film. 1122 01:18:59,500 --> 01:19:02,060 Well, why doesn't she take it? 1123 01:19:02,260 --> 01:19:04,260 Because I loathe bananas! 1124 01:19:04,460 --> 01:19:07,460 - Xira! - I don't believe it. 1125 01:19:09,260 --> 01:19:11,380 Use your heads and start thinking. 1126 01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:15,140 Now that they know we can speak, how much will we tell them? 1127 01:19:15,340 --> 01:19:16,300 Milo! 1128 01:19:19,060 --> 01:19:23,580 The character of Dr Milo meets an untimely end early in the film... 1129 01:19:23,780 --> 01:19:27,620 ...much to our disappointment, and to Sal Mineo's relief. 1130 01:19:28,100 --> 01:19:30,500 We did have to hug Sal a lot. 1131 01:19:30,900 --> 01:19:33,340 It was very, very difficult for him... 1132 01:19:33,540 --> 01:19:36,500 ...being confined in the appliances. 1133 01:19:36,700 --> 01:19:41,780 He was not comfortable at all being a chimpanzee. 1134 01:19:42,060 --> 01:19:45,060 If you'll just be seated, we'll get right down to business. 1135 01:19:45,500 --> 01:19:48,580 Dr Dixon. As a zoologist, I know and respect your work... 1136 01:19:48,780 --> 01:19:51,580 ...but if you want to turn a Presidential Inquiry... 1137 01:19:51,780 --> 01:19:54,260 ...into a ventriloquist's act, I have to inform you... 1138 01:19:54,460 --> 01:19:58,780 And I have to inform you that these apes have the power of speech. 1139 01:19:59,700 --> 01:20:01,980 It was during the filming of this scene... 1140 01:20:02,180 --> 01:20:05,540 ...that Kim and I had one of our most unusual experiences... 1141 01:20:05,740 --> 01:20:07,900 ...while working on an Apes picture. 1142 01:20:08,340 --> 01:20:10,620 - Have you a name? - Xira. 1143 01:20:10,820 --> 01:20:12,940 (public gasps) 1144 01:20:13,140 --> 01:20:16,820 - One might as well be talking to a parrot. - A parrot?! 1145 01:20:17,020 --> 01:20:17,980 (laughter) 1146 01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:21,100 (Kim Hunter) We had to face this Presidential Commission. 1147 01:20:21,300 --> 01:20:25,060 Roddy and I were facing the commission, which was up on a stage... 1148 01:20:25,260 --> 01:20:27,100 ...sort of in a semicircle. 1149 01:20:27,300 --> 01:20:30,500 And we were here, and behind us were members of press. 1150 01:20:30,700 --> 01:20:33,180 Does the other one talk? 1151 01:20:34,580 --> 01:20:37,700 - Only when she lets me. - (laughter) 1152 01:20:38,340 --> 01:20:40,500 So, in order to get rid of all those extras... 1153 01:20:40,700 --> 01:20:43,260 ...of course, they shot us first. 1154 01:20:43,460 --> 01:20:49,580 Then the director said "Look, you and Roddy can start getting the appliances off... 1155 01:20:49,780 --> 01:20:52,780 ...because we won't be shooting you the rest of the day." 1156 01:20:52,980 --> 01:20:57,140 "Just come back to be off camera for the Presidential Commission... 1157 01:20:57,340 --> 01:21:01,740 ...for their questions, and respond to the other actors." 1158 01:21:01,940 --> 01:21:06,380 So it was marvellous. We started taking it off. But it was so weird. 1159 01:21:06,580 --> 01:21:09,620 "Roddy," I said, "are you feeling the same thing I'm feeling?" 1160 01:21:09,820 --> 01:21:16,500 It didn't feel like Zira and Cornelius when they started taking this stuff off. 1161 01:21:16,700 --> 01:21:19,740 I finally said "Stop taking it all off." 1162 01:21:19,940 --> 01:21:22,580 "Leave on some." 1163 01:21:22,780 --> 01:21:24,620 "I've gotta have it." 1164 01:21:24,820 --> 01:21:28,140 It just didn't work without the appliances. 1165 01:21:28,340 --> 01:21:31,460 The character just... sort of disappeared. 1166 01:21:32,700 --> 01:21:35,500 Internally I was thinking and feeling the same thing... 1167 01:21:35,700 --> 01:21:39,860 ...but it didn't come out properly without the appliances. 1168 01:21:40,060 --> 01:21:41,820 It was very strange. 1169 01:21:45,220 --> 01:21:48,860 (Roddy McDowall) The film was primarily set in and around Los Angeles. 1170 01:21:49,060 --> 01:21:53,980 This helped the studio to control costs and keep the production close to home. 1171 01:21:54,180 --> 01:21:56,180 Address, please? 1172 01:22:00,060 --> 01:22:01,820 - The zoo. - (laughter) 1173 01:22:02,700 --> 01:22:07,020 It also gave us the opportunity to create some of the film's most memorable scenes... 1174 01:22:07,220 --> 01:22:10,620 ...as Cornelius and Zira become media celebrities. 1175 01:22:10,820 --> 01:22:14,180 Dr Cornelius. Tell me, how do you find our women? 1176 01:22:17,140 --> 01:22:19,220 - Very human. - (laughter) 1177 01:22:19,420 --> 01:22:23,900 Many of these scenes were inspired by episodes in the original Pierre Boulle novel. 1178 01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:26,100 How do you like it, Cornelius? 1179 01:22:27,260 --> 01:22:28,220 Beastly. 1180 01:22:28,420 --> 01:22:32,700 ...and recaptured much of the original film's humour and social satire. 1181 01:22:32,900 --> 01:22:35,100 - How is that? - Soothing... 1182 01:22:36,180 --> 01:22:38,260 ...but very wet. 1183 01:22:40,780 --> 01:22:43,700 But the light-hearted tone of the film began to shift... 1184 01:22:43,900 --> 01:22:47,220 ...when Zira offered this surprising revelation. 1185 01:22:54,140 --> 01:22:57,340 - It must have been the shock. - Shock, my foot! 1186 01:22:58,140 --> 01:22:59,980 I'm pregnant. 1187 01:23:01,700 --> 01:23:05,820 Eventually, fearful government officials put the apes into custody. 1188 01:23:06,020 --> 01:23:08,340 - Cornelius? - (Cornelius) Xira! 1189 01:23:08,940 --> 01:23:11,940 They made me tell them everything, Cornelius. 1190 01:23:12,820 --> 01:23:14,780 We can't live with lies. 1191 01:23:14,980 --> 01:23:18,140 After this, I doubt we shall be allowed to live at all. 1192 01:23:18,580 --> 01:23:22,260 You have evidence, Mr President, that one day talking apes will dominate Earth. 1193 01:23:22,460 --> 01:23:25,460 Now, what do you expect me to do about it? 1194 01:23:26,780 --> 01:23:30,780 Alter what you believe to be the future by slaughtering two innocents... 1195 01:23:30,980 --> 01:23:33,860 ...or rather three, now that one of them is pregnant? 1196 01:23:34,060 --> 01:23:36,580 Herod tried that and Christ survived. 1197 01:23:36,780 --> 01:23:39,580 Do you want their progeny to dominate the world? 1198 01:23:40,220 --> 01:23:43,540 The commission unanimously recommends... 1199 01:23:44,340 --> 01:23:48,460 ...that the birth of the female ape's unborn child should be prevented. 1200 01:23:49,540 --> 01:23:52,980 Savages! They are savages! 1201 01:23:53,180 --> 01:23:54,980 This is a major change in the series... 1202 01:23:55,180 --> 01:23:58,260 ...because now the apes are predominantly the heroes... 1203 01:23:58,460 --> 01:24:00,780 ...and humans have become the antagonists. 1204 01:24:00,980 --> 01:24:04,860 And Zira and Cornelius, now they're the strangers in a strange land. 1205 01:24:05,060 --> 01:24:07,860 Kind of an inverse of Taylor's situation. 1206 01:24:08,060 --> 01:24:11,100 They treated you like dirt. 1207 01:24:11,300 --> 01:24:13,980 Ma'am. Sir. Chow time. 1208 01:24:14,180 --> 01:24:18,460 You better have your soup and oranges for the sake of that... little monkey... 1209 01:24:21,340 --> 01:24:22,940 The apes killed their orderly. 1210 01:24:23,140 --> 01:24:24,700 - Where are they? - On the run. 1211 01:24:25,700 --> 01:24:28,580 Now they've killed, and for that they must be killed. 1212 01:24:29,580 --> 01:24:32,260 Because they bring it back to modern-day America... 1213 01:24:32,460 --> 01:24:37,140 ...it shifts the focus away from the future to the present, to the here and now. 1214 01:24:37,340 --> 01:24:40,220 - Cornelius, what have you done? - I didn't mean to kill him. 1215 01:24:40,420 --> 01:24:43,580 - Please believe me. - I do, Cornelius, I do. But they won't. 1216 01:24:43,780 --> 01:24:49,820 And it opens the door for a much more direct address to the America of the time. 1217 01:24:50,020 --> 01:24:51,900 We'll catch 'em sooner or later. 1218 01:24:52,100 --> 01:24:56,140 That's what I'm worried about - later. Later we'll do something about pollution. 1219 01:24:56,340 --> 01:24:58,860 Later we'll tackle the population explosion. 1220 01:24:59,060 --> 01:25:01,820 Later we'll do something about the nuclear war. 1221 01:25:02,020 --> 01:25:04,340 We think we got all the time in the world. 1222 01:25:04,540 --> 01:25:06,300 How much time has the world got? 1223 01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:10,740 I think my pains have begun. 1224 01:25:12,140 --> 01:25:13,940 Let me get this straight. 1225 01:25:14,140 --> 01:25:19,500 You are asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two fugitive apes? 1226 01:25:19,700 --> 01:25:22,780 The answer is a thousand times... yes. 1227 01:25:23,580 --> 01:25:28,420 (Roddy McDowall) Cornelius and Zira find temporary refuge in a travelling circus. 1228 01:25:28,820 --> 01:25:31,420 Look. Look at Heloise. 1229 01:25:33,620 --> 01:25:36,460 She's showing an expectant mother what to expect. 1230 01:25:36,660 --> 01:25:38,860 Mama. Mama. 1231 01:25:39,060 --> 01:25:42,700 - Xira... - I'm getting into practice. 1232 01:25:42,900 --> 01:25:47,780 The sympathetic circus owner, Armando, was played by Ricardo Montalban. 1233 01:25:47,980 --> 01:25:51,140 I identify very much with this man's compassion... 1234 01:25:51,340 --> 01:25:53,780 ...for these so-called beasts... 1235 01:25:54,300 --> 01:25:57,900 ...which were remarkably good and wonderful and kind. 1236 01:25:58,100 --> 01:26:00,100 (Lewis) There, that's good. 1237 01:26:02,140 --> 01:26:03,220 Come on. 1238 01:26:03,420 --> 01:26:07,940 Because the message, to me, was man's inhumanity to man... 1239 01:26:08,140 --> 01:26:10,300 ...that we have not conquered prejudice. 1240 01:26:10,500 --> 01:26:13,300 Are we ever going to conquer prejudice? Ever? 1241 01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:15,780 That's a very powerful theme. 1242 01:26:15,980 --> 01:26:19,580 You have done enough to make us grateful to you for ever. 1243 01:26:19,780 --> 01:26:23,300 I did it because I like chimpanzees best of all apes. 1244 01:26:25,100 --> 01:26:27,740 And you, the best of all chimpanzees. 1245 01:26:28,300 --> 01:26:30,940 And if it is man's destiny one day to be dominated... 1246 01:26:31,140 --> 01:26:35,020 ...then, oh, please God, let him be dominated by such as you. 1247 01:26:35,220 --> 01:26:36,220 Thank you. 1248 01:26:37,820 --> 01:26:41,740 (Roddy McDowall) The climax of the film takes place on an abandoned freighter... 1249 01:26:41,940 --> 01:26:45,060 ...as Cornelius and Zira are brutally hunted down. 1250 01:26:46,140 --> 01:26:47,700 Xira. 1251 01:26:47,900 --> 01:26:51,260 I want that baby. If you won't give it to me, I'll shoot. 1252 01:26:56,820 --> 01:26:59,140 - My God, stop him! - (gunshot) 1253 01:26:59,540 --> 01:27:03,580 (Ricardo Montalban) What's interesting to me about the Planet of the Apes is that... 1254 01:27:03,780 --> 01:27:06,540 ...the endings were really not happy. 1255 01:27:06,740 --> 01:27:08,740 - (gunshots) - No! 1256 01:27:08,980 --> 01:27:09,860 (wails) 1257 01:27:10,060 --> 01:27:14,540 But in a science fiction film, you have a little more margin... 1258 01:27:14,740 --> 01:27:17,060 ...to be able to express certain things. 1259 01:27:17,260 --> 01:27:21,260 So the public accepted the unhappy ending because it was truthful. 1260 01:27:21,460 --> 01:27:23,380 It wasn't just to make you sad. 1261 01:27:24,700 --> 01:27:26,300 It was: that's the way it is. 1262 01:27:29,300 --> 01:27:34,900 It's a love story. Paul and I - Paul Dehn, that is - we both said that to each other. 1263 01:27:35,100 --> 01:27:37,380 He said "That's what I wrote." 1264 01:27:38,580 --> 01:27:41,580 And a love story always ends unhappily. 1265 01:27:41,780 --> 01:27:43,980 Most love stories do. 1266 01:27:44,180 --> 01:27:47,580 That's what makes them a love story. So, there you are. 1267 01:27:48,260 --> 01:27:53,140 (Roddy McDowall) The film's ending caused much debate amongst the production team... 1268 01:27:53,340 --> 01:27:58,180 ...the biggest question being: what if the studio asks for another sequel? 1269 01:27:58,580 --> 01:28:01,420 (Armando) All hands on the guy lines. 1270 01:28:01,620 --> 01:28:04,380 - Drop the bail ring! - Come on, let's go! 1271 01:28:04,580 --> 01:28:09,780 As soon as you get that canvas packed, I want every hand in the menagerie tent. 1272 01:28:09,980 --> 01:28:12,580 Producer Jacobs and screenwriter Dehn... 1273 01:28:12,780 --> 01:28:16,300 ...decided not to paint themselves into another corner this time. 1274 01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:18,500 Intelligent creature. 1275 01:28:19,900 --> 01:28:22,580 But then, so were your mother and father. 1276 01:28:27,780 --> 01:28:29,780 Mama. 1277 01:28:30,900 --> 01:28:33,740 Mama. Mama. Mama. 1278 01:28:34,300 --> 01:28:36,980 (trailer) Escape from the Planet of the Apes. 1279 01:28:38,100 --> 01:28:41,100 Their adventures are completely fresh, completely new. 1280 01:28:41,300 --> 01:28:43,260 Released in May, 1971... 1281 01:28:43,460 --> 01:28:48,180 ...Escape from the Planet of the Apes proved to be another box-office success. 1282 01:28:48,380 --> 01:28:53,340 Adult audiences loved the humour and subtle social commentary of the film... 1283 01:28:53,540 --> 01:28:58,380 ...and the elements of fantasy and adventure continued to captivate children. 1284 01:28:58,900 --> 01:29:03,420 The Apes films were still considered ideal family entertainment. 1285 01:29:05,180 --> 01:29:08,220 Planet of the Apes was becoming a full-grown franchise... 1286 01:29:08,420 --> 01:29:11,020 ...and there seemed to be no end in sight. 1287 01:29:11,220 --> 01:29:13,100 Planning began for another instalment. 1288 01:29:13,300 --> 01:29:18,580 But, this time, the filmmakers would find themselves going down a darker path... 1289 01:29:18,780 --> 01:29:20,580 ...than they ever had before. 1290 01:29:20,780 --> 01:29:26,100 One that threatened to lose them their loyal and profitable family audience. 1291 01:29:27,980 --> 01:29:33,140 The fourth Apes film began shooting on January 31st, 1972... 1292 01:29:33,340 --> 01:29:35,940 ...under the direction of J Lee Thompson. 1293 01:29:36,340 --> 01:29:38,340 You just take the book. 1294 01:29:38,620 --> 01:29:42,740 He was a prolific craftsman whose credits included The Guns of Navarone... 1295 01:29:42,940 --> 01:29:44,540 ...the original Cape Fear... 1296 01:29:44,740 --> 01:29:47,740 ...and Arthur Jacobs' first production, What a Way to Go. 1297 01:29:47,940 --> 01:29:50,340 (Thompson) keep low. keep low. 1298 01:29:54,380 --> 01:29:57,380 Once again, the script was provided by Paul Dehn. 1299 01:29:58,420 --> 01:30:02,540 The title was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. 1300 01:30:05,380 --> 01:30:10,420 The film is set in a city of the future which resembles an oppressive police state. 1301 01:30:10,620 --> 01:30:12,740 - Go! - (screams) 1302 01:30:14,300 --> 01:30:18,340 A mysterious plague has wiped out all dogs and cats from the face of the earth. 1303 01:30:18,540 --> 01:30:19,500 Do. 1304 01:30:19,700 --> 01:30:22,260 Apes have been domesticated to take their place... 1305 01:30:22,460 --> 01:30:24,860 ...and trained to perform like slaves. 1306 01:30:25,780 --> 01:30:26,580 No! 1307 01:30:28,420 --> 01:30:32,780 The main focus of the story is on a new central ape character. 1308 01:30:32,980 --> 01:30:36,060 - Are you authorised to dress him like that? - Oh, yes, sir. 1309 01:30:36,260 --> 01:30:40,660 He is Caesar, the now fully grown child of Cornelius and Zira. 1310 01:30:40,860 --> 01:30:42,140 A circus ape, huh? 1311 01:30:42,340 --> 01:30:45,180 - Circuses are past history. - Not while I live and breathe. 1312 01:30:45,380 --> 01:30:48,300 - All right, Senor Armando. Go ahead. - Thank you. 1313 01:30:48,500 --> 01:30:50,060 Come, come. 1314 01:30:50,260 --> 01:30:54,260 Owing to the loyalty of Arthur P Jacobs, I was given the leading role... 1315 01:30:54,460 --> 01:30:57,500 ...and had the unique opportunity of playing my own son. 1316 01:30:57,700 --> 01:31:01,100 That was the great leap for Roddy, and that was wonderful because... 1317 01:31:01,300 --> 01:31:04,180 ...it still brought his personality to the character. 1318 01:31:04,380 --> 01:31:09,220 Maybe he's not the same exact individual, but it's still his spirit coming through. 1319 01:31:09,420 --> 01:31:14,620 And then he became so identified with the series that the continuity to an audience is: 1320 01:31:14,820 --> 01:31:16,580 "Roddy McDowall in Planet of the Apes." 1321 01:31:16,780 --> 01:31:18,780 Well, for heaven's sakes! A circus! 1322 01:31:18,980 --> 01:31:20,580 - (gorilla grunts) - (Caesar screeches) 1323 01:31:20,780 --> 01:31:22,180 Home, Lisa. 1324 01:31:22,380 --> 01:31:26,060 Making her third appearance in the series was Natalie Trundy. 1325 01:31:26,260 --> 01:31:32,660 This time, however, she joined me behind the makeup for her role as the chimpanzee Lisa. 1326 01:31:32,860 --> 01:31:37,260 (Natalie Trundy) Arthur said "Natalina..." He used to call me Natalina. 1327 01:31:37,460 --> 01:31:39,980 I said "I know what you're gonna ask." 1328 01:31:40,180 --> 01:31:45,100 I really didn't wanna play an ape, having seen what everyone went through. 1329 01:31:46,060 --> 01:31:51,620 You know, for the makeup, there were hours and hours of that... crap. (laughs) 1330 01:31:52,260 --> 01:31:53,660 Of course I did it. 1331 01:31:54,420 --> 01:31:59,740 (Roddy McDowall) Ricardo Montalban also returned as kindly circus owner Armando... 1332 01:31:59,940 --> 01:32:02,260 ...Caesar's mentor and conscience. 1333 01:32:02,460 --> 01:32:05,020 - Did I do all right? - Yes, yes, yes. 1334 01:32:05,660 --> 01:32:08,900 But try to walk a little more like a primitive chimpanzee. 1335 01:32:09,100 --> 01:32:13,020 After 20 years, you've picked up evolved habits from me. 1336 01:32:13,220 --> 01:32:16,300 That could be dangerous. Even fatal. 1337 01:32:16,500 --> 01:32:20,380 (PA) Attention. Attention. Disperse apes gathering in the mall. 1338 01:32:20,580 --> 01:32:25,100 (Ricardo Montalban) Facing Roddy, the way he looked could be a little distracting. 1339 01:32:25,980 --> 01:32:30,820 So I had to concentrate more on thinking of him as an actor, not as a monkey. 1340 01:32:33,100 --> 01:32:35,980 I remember very distinctly the rapport with Roddy... 1341 01:32:36,180 --> 01:32:39,300 ...when he's dying to speak in rebellion... 1342 01:32:39,500 --> 01:32:44,060 ...of the mistreatment of his brothers and sisters. 1343 01:32:44,420 --> 01:32:45,260 (ape moans) 1344 01:32:45,460 --> 01:32:47,420 Lousy human bastards! 1345 01:32:47,620 --> 01:32:52,940 The theme was so important to make a parallel to the terrible thing of slavery. 1346 01:32:53,140 --> 01:32:55,140 Who said that? 1347 01:32:55,980 --> 01:32:57,980 I did. 1348 01:32:58,540 --> 01:33:00,740 He's a performing ape for my circus. 1349 01:33:00,940 --> 01:33:03,380 - A talking ape? - It's right! The ape spoke! 1350 01:33:03,580 --> 01:33:05,820 - (crowd) Yeah! - No! No, they're mistaken. 1351 01:33:06,020 --> 01:33:08,740 We better take him to headquarters for interrogation. 1352 01:33:10,460 --> 01:33:14,060 When Armando is arrested, Caesar hides among the ape servant class... 1353 01:33:14,260 --> 01:33:17,540 ...and is subjected to a brutal training process. 1354 01:33:18,980 --> 01:33:21,300 Take a good look at this specimen. 1355 01:33:21,780 --> 01:33:26,020 Caesar soon finds himself the prized object in a slave auction... 1356 01:33:26,220 --> 01:33:27,380 - Buy him. - 1500! 1357 01:33:27,580 --> 01:33:29,780 1500 from Mr MacDonald! 1358 01:33:29,980 --> 01:33:32,580 For His Excellency, Governor Breck. 1359 01:33:32,780 --> 01:33:36,660 ...and becomes a servant to the governor, played by Don Murray. 1360 01:33:37,660 --> 01:33:39,660 Name yourself. 1361 01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:47,100 "Caesar." 1362 01:33:48,980 --> 01:33:51,060 A king. 1363 01:33:52,540 --> 01:33:55,700 Working in proximity to the human seat of power... 1364 01:33:55,900 --> 01:33:58,020 ...Caesar learns the value of power... 1365 01:33:58,220 --> 01:33:59,100 No! 1366 01:33:59,300 --> 01:34:00,820 ...and force. 1367 01:34:01,020 --> 01:34:02,780 (screams) 1368 01:34:04,820 --> 01:34:09,460 About your sworn statement that the circus ape is incapable of speech. 1369 01:34:09,660 --> 01:34:11,100 Hell, no! 1370 01:34:13,620 --> 01:34:16,140 Armando's death at the hand of the government... 1371 01:34:16,340 --> 01:34:20,460 ...kills any notion that Caesar has of man's potential for good. 1372 01:34:20,660 --> 01:34:22,660 (roars) 1373 01:34:23,980 --> 01:34:26,020 He begins to plot a revolution... 1374 01:34:26,220 --> 01:34:29,540 ...whose purpose is the ultimate destruction of mankind. 1375 01:34:30,300 --> 01:34:32,300 (screaming) 1376 01:34:33,100 --> 01:34:34,260 Action! 1377 01:34:34,460 --> 01:34:39,940 With a budget of only $1.7 million, the producers had difficulty finding a location... 1378 01:34:40,140 --> 01:34:43,780 ...where they could film an epic revolution in a city of the future. 1379 01:34:45,780 --> 01:34:47,660 But, as luck would have it... 1380 01:34:47,860 --> 01:34:51,660 ...there was a recently completed commercial and residential complex... 1381 01:34:51,860 --> 01:34:53,740 ...right next to the studio. 1382 01:34:53,940 --> 01:34:55,380 Called Century City... 1383 01:34:55,580 --> 01:35:00,780 ...it had been built on land that was formerly part of Twentieth Century Fox's backlot. 1384 01:35:00,980 --> 01:35:06,940 It was pretty new and had a lot of concrete stone and nice sharp angles. 1385 01:35:07,980 --> 01:35:11,660 So it became a kind of a natural thing that, if we could shoot there... 1386 01:35:11,860 --> 01:35:15,980 ...we could create a city of the future, but not so far removed from today. 1387 01:35:19,540 --> 01:35:24,260 The main band of rioting apes are, at this very moment, marching on the city. 1388 01:35:24,460 --> 01:35:26,740 Commander, I understand the situation. 1389 01:35:26,940 --> 01:35:29,620 Assemble as large a force as you can and follow them. 1390 01:35:29,820 --> 01:35:33,540 (Roddy McDowall) Conquest also had striking costume and colour design... 1391 01:35:33,740 --> 01:35:36,780 ...making it look unlike any other film in the series. 1392 01:35:36,980 --> 01:35:39,260 (Frank Capra Jr) The black costumes conveyed... 1393 01:35:39,460 --> 01:35:43,500 ...this rigid and not-so-pleasant world of humans. 1394 01:35:43,700 --> 01:35:48,620 Not necessarily a dictatorship, but it seemed to be a pretty controlled society. 1395 01:35:48,820 --> 01:35:51,860 - They've reached the Plaza. - Good God! They're armed! 1396 01:35:52,060 --> 01:35:53,300 And organised. 1397 01:35:56,300 --> 01:35:57,300 No! 1398 01:35:59,020 --> 01:36:03,300 (J Lee Thompson) We definitely set out to give it a city look. 1399 01:36:03,500 --> 01:36:08,500 I suppose you'd call it, in its day, a modern look. And... 1400 01:36:09,700 --> 01:36:12,540 ...we went for certain colours. 1401 01:36:12,740 --> 01:36:14,620 Ready! 1402 01:36:15,460 --> 01:36:20,940 Black and red were the primary colours we used in the film. 1403 01:36:21,140 --> 01:36:22,580 Aim! 1404 01:36:23,420 --> 01:36:28,460 At night we would highlight the costumes with cross-lighting... 1405 01:36:28,660 --> 01:36:32,220 ...and opened it up as much as was possible. 1406 01:36:32,420 --> 01:36:37,260 And I think that helped the picture look more expensive than it was. 1407 01:36:37,660 --> 01:36:38,820 Fire! 1408 01:36:43,300 --> 01:36:47,180 (Roddy McDowall) In the scenes where the ape revolution reaches its zenith... 1409 01:36:47,380 --> 01:36:50,740 ...director Thompson pushed for a level of on-screen violence... 1410 01:36:50,940 --> 01:36:54,500 ...that had never been seen in an Apes film before. 1411 01:36:57,620 --> 01:37:00,260 In the first preview at Phoenix... 1412 01:37:00,780 --> 01:37:06,980 ...mothers took their children, running down the aisles, to get out of the theatre... 1413 01:37:07,780 --> 01:37:11,780 ...because of the bloodiness of the riots. 1414 01:37:12,780 --> 01:37:14,660 Shoot them! Shoot them all! 1415 01:37:14,860 --> 01:37:16,220 (gunfiire) 1416 01:37:17,820 --> 01:37:22,020 (Frank Capra Jr) We made a conscious decision to go to more action-adventure. 1417 01:37:23,260 --> 01:37:27,180 It was felt that that would be a successful turn for the series. 1418 01:37:29,540 --> 01:37:33,420 We were always concerned about the level of violence we could put in... 1419 01:37:33,620 --> 01:37:36,500 ...because it was still a young people's picture. 1420 01:37:38,380 --> 01:37:42,420 The censor wouldn't pass the film the first time. 1421 01:37:44,540 --> 01:37:47,140 Too much blood and too much gore. 1422 01:37:47,780 --> 01:37:52,420 Fox wanted to try and retain the family audience... 1423 01:37:52,620 --> 01:37:55,980 ...and they made us cut it a great deal. 1424 01:37:59,220 --> 01:38:01,260 It was a violent film... 1425 01:38:01,460 --> 01:38:04,460 ...and politically very disturbing. 1426 01:38:09,540 --> 01:38:13,340 (Roddy McDowall) Dehn and Thompson modelled the apes' revolt... 1427 01:38:13,540 --> 01:38:16,260 ...on the 1965 Watts Riots... 1428 01:38:18,140 --> 01:38:22,220 ...an event that had left an indelible impression on the American landscape. 1429 01:38:26,780 --> 01:38:31,340 (Eric Greene) In 1972, there's no way any major studio was gonna release a film... 1430 01:38:31,540 --> 01:38:34,700 ...where the hero was the leader of the Watts Riots. 1431 01:38:34,940 --> 01:38:40,780 But you could release a film where the leader of an ape-slave revolution is your hero. 1432 01:38:43,260 --> 01:38:46,980 You can capture the audience's attention, and try to get people... 1433 01:38:47,180 --> 01:38:51,020 ...to maybe rethink the way they were looking at the current events of the time. 1434 01:38:51,220 --> 01:38:54,540 That's one of the beauties of well-done science fiction. 1435 01:38:56,900 --> 01:38:59,260 Why did you turn us into slaves? 1436 01:38:59,700 --> 01:39:02,460 Because your kind were once our ancestors. 1437 01:39:02,980 --> 01:39:06,220 And there's still an ape curled up inside of every man. 1438 01:39:06,420 --> 01:39:09,940 The beast that must be whipped into submission. 1439 01:39:10,220 --> 01:39:12,540 You are that beast, Caesar. 1440 01:39:13,100 --> 01:39:15,580 When we hate you, we're... 1441 01:39:15,780 --> 01:39:18,940 ...we're hating the dark side of ourselves. 1442 01:39:19,900 --> 01:39:23,020 (J Lee Thompson) We had quite a lot of discussion... 1443 01:39:23,220 --> 01:39:26,780 ...about the political aspect of the film. 1444 01:39:26,980 --> 01:39:30,020 Eventually, we showed it in Inglewood... 1445 01:39:30,220 --> 01:39:33,340 ...and a largely black audience cheered. 1446 01:39:33,660 --> 01:39:34,540 Caesar! 1447 01:39:34,740 --> 01:39:40,900 - By what right are you spilling blood? - The slaves' right to punish his persecutors. 1448 01:39:41,100 --> 01:39:46,420 Caesar. I, a descendant of slaves, am asking you to show humanity. 1449 01:39:46,940 --> 01:39:49,420 But I was not born human. 1450 01:39:49,620 --> 01:39:54,740 The African-American audience was very vocal. They'd get up and yell and scream... 1451 01:39:54,940 --> 01:39:58,500 ...all on the side of the apes. It was like: revolution has come. 1452 01:39:58,940 --> 01:40:02,220 Where there is fire, there is smoke. 1453 01:40:02,420 --> 01:40:06,300 And, in that smoke, from this day forward... 1454 01:40:06,500 --> 01:40:09,740 ...my people will crouch and conspire... 1455 01:40:09,940 --> 01:40:15,100 ...and plot and plan for the inevitable day of man's downfall. 1456 01:40:15,420 --> 01:40:20,300 And we shall build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans... 1457 01:40:20,500 --> 01:40:22,300 ...except to serve our ends. 1458 01:40:22,500 --> 01:40:26,140 And we shall found our own armies, our own religion... 1459 01:40:26,340 --> 01:40:27,980 ...our own dynasty! 1460 01:40:28,180 --> 01:40:32,780 And that day is upon you... now! 1461 01:40:32,980 --> 01:40:36,060 (Roddy McDowall) As originally shot, Caesar's final speech... 1462 01:40:36,260 --> 01:40:38,700 ...was a militant call for revolution. 1463 01:40:38,900 --> 01:40:41,620 (whimpers) No. 1464 01:40:42,380 --> 01:40:45,260 But, responding to test audience reaction... 1465 01:40:45,460 --> 01:40:50,660 ...the studio and producer Jacobs decided to alter this speech in postproduction. 1466 01:40:50,860 --> 01:40:56,220 I was called in to record some additional lines, ending the film on a more hopeful note. 1467 01:40:56,420 --> 01:40:57,580 But now... 1468 01:40:57,780 --> 01:41:01,180 Now we will put away our hatred. 1469 01:41:01,380 --> 01:41:04,420 Now we will put down our weapons. 1470 01:41:08,020 --> 01:41:11,740 And we, who are not human... 1471 01:41:12,260 --> 01:41:15,260 ...can afford to be humane. 1472 01:41:15,460 --> 01:41:19,260 If it is man's destiny to be dominated... 1473 01:41:19,460 --> 01:41:21,660 ...it is God's will... 1474 01:41:21,860 --> 01:41:26,060 ...that he be dominated with compassion. 1475 01:41:26,260 --> 01:41:29,980 So, cast out your vengeance. 1476 01:41:31,700 --> 01:41:34,900 Tonight, we have seen... 1477 01:41:35,100 --> 01:41:39,020 ...the birth of the Planet of the Apes! 1478 01:41:39,220 --> 01:41:41,980 (screeching) 1479 01:41:45,860 --> 01:41:48,380 War, urban violence, racial unrest. 1480 01:41:50,100 --> 01:41:55,780 Issues that were strongly influencing popular movie entertainment in 1972. 1481 01:41:57,860 --> 01:41:59,820 Films like Dirty Harry... 1482 01:42:00,020 --> 01:42:01,860 ...The French Connection... 1483 01:42:02,220 --> 01:42:03,780 ...Shaft, and yes... 1484 01:42:04,740 --> 01:42:07,900 ...even Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. 1485 01:42:09,020 --> 01:42:11,980 (trailer) Watch the screen explode as man faces ape... 1486 01:42:12,180 --> 01:42:16,020 ...in the most horrifying spectacle in the annals of science fiction. 1487 01:42:16,220 --> 01:42:22,340 But, despite the initial test reactions, parental outcries and a final PG rating... 1488 01:42:22,540 --> 01:42:25,580 ...Conquest still found an audience at the box office. 1489 01:42:25,780 --> 01:42:31,220 This will be the end of human civilisation and the world will belong to a planet of apes! 1490 01:42:35,660 --> 01:42:39,060 Once again, Fox was asking for the inevitable sequel. 1491 01:42:39,260 --> 01:42:43,180 And, for the first time, producer Arthur Jacobs and the studio... 1492 01:42:43,380 --> 01:42:46,020 ...found themselves at a crossroads. 1493 01:42:46,220 --> 01:42:51,900 Had Conquest gone too far in succumbing to the trend of escalating screen violence? 1494 01:42:52,100 --> 01:42:57,740 Was it possible to move the story forward and still make a family picture? 1495 01:42:58,940 --> 01:43:02,060 Soon after Conquest's release in 1972... 1496 01:43:02,260 --> 01:43:05,060 ...producer Arthur Jacobs once again asked Paul Dehn... 1497 01:43:05,260 --> 01:43:09,060 ...to develop and script the fifth Apes feature. 1498 01:43:09,260 --> 01:43:14,460 Dehn quickly submitted a treatment entitled Battle for the Planet of the Apes. 1499 01:43:17,420 --> 01:43:21,420 It continued the story of Caesar as he fights against a group of human rebels... 1500 01:43:21,620 --> 01:43:23,620 ...who possess an atomic bomb. 1501 01:43:26,260 --> 01:43:29,540 Ultimately, Caesar is killed by one of his own generals... 1502 01:43:29,740 --> 01:43:32,820 ...and a group of ape politicians and military commanders... 1503 01:43:33,020 --> 01:43:36,620 ...hold final governance over the Planet of the Apes. 1504 01:43:38,380 --> 01:43:43,020 But Dehn's outline was rejected. Arthur thought it was too bleak and too violent... 1505 01:43:43,220 --> 01:43:46,900 ...for the more upbeat film that both he and the studio wanted to make. 1506 01:43:47,700 --> 01:43:50,340 Dehn reshaped the story and script. 1507 01:43:50,540 --> 01:43:54,340 But two new writers were also hired to give a fresh perspective. 1508 01:43:54,540 --> 01:43:58,020 They were John and Joyce Corrington, a husband-and-wife team... 1509 01:43:58,220 --> 01:44:01,340 ...who had found science fiction success with The Omega Man... 1510 01:44:01,540 --> 01:44:04,660 ...a recent film that had starred Charlton Heston. 1511 01:44:08,100 --> 01:44:11,140 Keeping the title Battle for the Planet of the Apes... 1512 01:44:11,340 --> 01:44:16,700 ...the fifth Apes film went into production on January 2nd, 1973... 1513 01:44:16,900 --> 01:44:20,020 ...with a budget of $1.8 million. 1514 01:44:20,980 --> 01:44:22,820 J Lee Thompson returned to direct... 1515 01:44:23,020 --> 01:44:27,180 ...having impressed both Jacobs and associate producer Frank Capra Jr... 1516 01:44:27,380 --> 01:44:31,420 ...with the epic and visual flair he had achieved on Conquest. 1517 01:44:31,620 --> 01:44:35,900 Right from the start, Arthur said "We're gonna make a kid picture... 1518 01:44:36,540 --> 01:44:39,740 ...and something that will appeal to families." 1519 01:44:39,940 --> 01:44:43,340 We had no real political implications. 1520 01:44:43,540 --> 01:44:47,100 It was simply a kids' science fiction film. 1521 01:44:47,940 --> 01:44:51,900 (Roddy McDowall) For me, it was back to the makeup chair to play Caesar again. 1522 01:44:52,100 --> 01:44:56,700 I was anxious to do it because I'd enjoyed the role even more than the part of Cornelius. 1523 01:44:57,500 --> 01:44:59,940 Seen only in a brief prologue and epilogue... 1524 01:45:00,140 --> 01:45:02,740 ...the role of the Lawgiver had little screen time... 1525 01:45:02,940 --> 01:45:06,340 ...but proved a most notable casting choice: 1526 01:45:06,540 --> 01:45:10,820 legendary producer, writer, director and actor, John Huston. 1527 01:45:11,020 --> 01:45:14,540 "In the beginning, God created beast and man... 1528 01:45:14,740 --> 01:45:20,700 ...so that both might live in friendship and share dominion over a world of peace." 1529 01:45:22,460 --> 01:45:27,100 "The surface of the world was ravaged by the vilest war." 1530 01:45:27,620 --> 01:45:31,260 "Our saviour led a remnant of those who survived... 1531 01:45:31,460 --> 01:45:33,940 ...in search of greener pastures... 1532 01:45:34,140 --> 01:45:38,500 ...where ape and human might forever live in friendship... 1533 01:45:38,700 --> 01:45:40,980 ...according to divine will." 1534 01:45:42,140 --> 01:45:44,820 The story focused on the ape leader Caesar... 1535 01:45:45,020 --> 01:45:48,740 ...just a few years after he has led the ape revolution. 1536 01:45:48,940 --> 01:45:50,820 A nuclear war has occurred... 1537 01:45:51,020 --> 01:45:55,060 ...and Caesar now rules over a surviving band of apes and humans. 1538 01:45:55,260 --> 01:45:59,220 - No humans in Council! - They are here because I sent for them. 1539 01:45:59,420 --> 01:46:03,660 The two species have forged a fragile coexistence. 1540 01:46:04,020 --> 01:46:07,780 The apes are also working with the humans to educate themselves... 1541 01:46:07,980 --> 01:46:10,540 ...and have begun forming their own laws. 1542 01:46:11,380 --> 01:46:15,300 - Read me what I've written. - "Ape shall never kill ape." 1543 01:46:15,500 --> 01:46:17,340 "Ape shall never kill ape." 1544 01:46:17,540 --> 01:46:20,260 Shall ape ever kill man? 1545 01:46:23,220 --> 01:46:26,900 Oh, if only my mother and father, whom I was too young to remember... 1546 01:46:27,100 --> 01:46:28,980 ...if only they'd lived. 1547 01:46:29,180 --> 01:46:33,180 Perhaps they would have taught me if it was right to kill evil... 1548 01:46:34,100 --> 01:46:35,980 ...so that good should prevail. 1549 01:46:36,180 --> 01:46:40,220 In keeping with Jacob's new concept, Caesar's character was softened. 1550 01:46:40,420 --> 01:46:41,700 Cornelius. 1551 01:46:41,900 --> 01:46:44,220 He is no longer militant and angry... 1552 01:46:44,420 --> 01:46:45,540 Cornelius. 1553 01:46:45,740 --> 01:46:48,260 ...but patient and benevolent. 1554 01:46:49,180 --> 01:46:51,180 Father. 1555 01:46:52,140 --> 01:46:56,540 - I'm going on a journey. - Mm... What will you bring me back? 1556 01:46:57,500 --> 01:46:59,860 What would you like? 1557 01:47:02,020 --> 01:47:05,780 More nuts for my squirrel. He's growing fast. 1558 01:47:05,980 --> 01:47:07,980 So are you. 1559 01:47:09,460 --> 01:47:13,340 One day you will be as tall as a king. 1560 01:47:13,540 --> 01:47:17,460 This was very much part of the arc of what we felt... 1561 01:47:17,660 --> 01:47:21,140 ...seemed to be a logical situation for him. 1562 01:47:21,700 --> 01:47:24,420 And it was also more attractive as a character... 1563 01:47:24,620 --> 01:47:28,980 ...that he becomes a more paternalistic and a sort of a healer... 1564 01:47:29,180 --> 01:47:31,780 ...rather than a revolutionary character. 1565 01:47:33,060 --> 01:47:36,980 (Roddy McDowall) Natalie Trundy again signed on to play my wife, Lisa. 1566 01:47:37,180 --> 01:47:40,180 This was the fourth Apes film for both of us. 1567 01:47:40,700 --> 01:47:44,620 I don't want to have to remember my husband. I want to love him now. 1568 01:47:44,820 --> 01:47:48,820 Look. Virgil will be with us. Now, we'll take good care. 1569 01:47:49,700 --> 01:47:52,540 There it is... or was. 1570 01:47:54,100 --> 01:47:57,860 Some carefully placed rubble and a clever matte painting... 1571 01:47:58,060 --> 01:48:01,100 ...created the illusion of a bombed-out forbidden city... 1572 01:48:01,300 --> 01:48:05,020 ...where a group of radiation-scarred humans continued to live. 1573 01:48:05,220 --> 01:48:06,100 Governor, look! 1574 01:48:06,300 --> 01:48:08,980 Somebody's breached the warning system at F6. 1575 01:48:09,620 --> 01:48:11,660 For the interior of the forbidden city... 1576 01:48:11,860 --> 01:48:16,900 ...the producers used the Hyperion water treatment plant located in Los Angeles. 1577 01:48:17,100 --> 01:48:22,500 This background radiation alone will give us 300 roentgens per hour. 1578 01:48:23,060 --> 01:48:26,260 Another interesting casting note: the orangutan Virgil... 1579 01:48:26,460 --> 01:48:29,780 ...was played by singer/songwriter Paul Williams. 1580 01:48:30,380 --> 01:48:33,100 Can anything live down here? I mean, for long? 1581 01:48:33,300 --> 01:48:37,220 Oh, yes. But in the end, not recognisably. 1582 01:48:43,220 --> 01:48:46,660 (Frank Capra Jr) The series began to be more and more human-orientated. 1583 01:48:46,860 --> 01:48:48,980 We were thinking in terms of time always... 1584 01:48:49,180 --> 01:48:54,220 ...because these long makeup sessions cut the time of filming down. 1585 01:48:54,420 --> 01:48:59,980 It was difficult to get enough apes because of the time constraints of the makeup. 1586 01:49:02,300 --> 01:49:06,180 And actually audiences wanted to see more and more ape-orientated shots. 1587 01:49:06,380 --> 01:49:08,780 So it worked counterproductively. 1588 01:49:12,780 --> 01:49:16,260 (Roddy McDowall) When the humans from the forbidden city attack... 1589 01:49:16,780 --> 01:49:19,580 Aldo will make the future... with this! 1590 01:49:19,780 --> 01:49:24,900 ...Caesar engages in a power struggle with the commander of the military, General Aldo... 1591 01:49:25,100 --> 01:49:27,260 We want guns! 1592 01:49:27,460 --> 01:49:30,460 ...played by the noted character actor, Claude Akins. 1593 01:49:30,660 --> 01:49:36,140 We will smash the humans! And then, we will smash Caesar! 1594 01:49:36,380 --> 01:49:38,220 Look! 1595 01:49:43,060 --> 01:49:44,060 Caesar's son. 1596 01:49:50,460 --> 01:49:51,460 Father! 1597 01:49:56,220 --> 01:49:57,220 To the barricade! 1598 01:49:59,780 --> 01:50:01,980 Like all the entries in the series... 1599 01:50:02,180 --> 01:50:07,340 ...Battle for the Planet of the Apes contained plenty of rousing action sequences. 1600 01:50:08,780 --> 01:50:12,060 (J Lee Thompson) It was very low-budget... 1601 01:50:12,260 --> 01:50:15,300 ...so we had to reduce everything. 1602 01:50:15,660 --> 01:50:20,940 I had to come in closer, not use so many people. Come in closer... 1603 01:50:21,300 --> 01:50:22,300 Here they come. 1604 01:50:22,500 --> 01:50:25,260 ...and rely more on quick cuts. 1605 01:50:29,540 --> 01:50:35,180 Then, putting it all together, it gave a feel of a lot of numbers and a big battle. 1606 01:50:36,820 --> 01:50:38,580 Fall back! Fall back! 1607 01:50:38,780 --> 01:50:43,180 It's a pity that they downgraded the budget for each film... 1608 01:50:43,380 --> 01:50:46,660 ...instead of trying to go bigger and better. 1609 01:50:47,780 --> 01:50:52,940 But that was a decision taken by the money people... 1610 01:50:53,140 --> 01:50:55,020 ...and we had to live with it. 1611 01:50:55,220 --> 01:50:57,260 Now! Fight like apes! 1612 01:51:00,180 --> 01:51:04,540 (Roddy McDowall) Near the film's conclusion the mutant humans are defeated. 1613 01:51:04,740 --> 01:51:07,780 No! No, no, no! Don't kill them. Take them prisoner. 1614 01:51:07,980 --> 01:51:13,300 But the action is tempered by a much more pacifistic tone than in previous Apes films. 1615 01:51:14,700 --> 01:51:16,700 No. 1616 01:51:17,220 --> 01:51:19,220 No, Virgil. 1617 01:51:21,140 --> 01:51:23,020 (apes chanting) Ape has killed ape. 1618 01:51:23,220 --> 01:51:27,420 Caesar also discovers that Aldo is responsible for the death of his son... 1619 01:51:29,380 --> 01:51:31,780 Ape has never killed ape... 1620 01:51:32,820 --> 01:51:35,940 ...let alone an ape child. 1621 01:51:39,860 --> 01:51:43,500 ...and one final battle for the Planet of the Apes is fought. 1622 01:51:51,060 --> 01:51:52,620 Aaargh! 1623 01:52:01,020 --> 01:52:03,420 As I look at apes and humans... 1624 01:52:04,100 --> 01:52:08,060 ...living in friendship, harmony and at peace... 1625 01:52:09,060 --> 01:52:12,580 ...now, some 600 years after Caesar's death... 1626 01:52:12,780 --> 01:52:15,860 ...at least we wait with hope for the future. 1627 01:52:16,060 --> 01:52:19,140 Lawgiver, who knows about the future? 1628 01:52:21,620 --> 01:52:24,140 Perhaps only the dead. 1629 01:52:25,660 --> 01:52:29,700 Although Jacobs ultimately wanted to send a positive social message... 1630 01:52:29,900 --> 01:52:33,180 ...the film's final image is rather ambiguous. 1631 01:52:34,340 --> 01:52:40,620 Is the statue of Caesar crying a tear of joy because man and ape are finally at peace? 1632 01:52:40,820 --> 01:52:43,140 - We have a destiny too. - Respecting each other. 1633 01:52:43,340 --> 01:52:44,460 As equals. 1634 01:52:44,660 --> 01:52:48,780 Or is it a tear of sorrow because he knows that is an impossibility? 1635 01:52:48,980 --> 01:52:51,580 The human way is violence and death. 1636 01:52:51,980 --> 01:52:54,020 These questions would never be resolved... 1637 01:52:54,220 --> 01:52:57,180 ...because, during the early stages of production... 1638 01:52:57,380 --> 01:53:02,460 ...it had been decided that this would be the final chapter in the Apes series. 1639 01:53:02,660 --> 01:53:08,420 And that is how it was advertised when it reached theatres in May of 1973. 1640 01:53:09,300 --> 01:53:12,180 We felt like we had come pretty far. 1641 01:53:12,380 --> 01:53:15,780 Again, production-value wise, we'd gotten to a point... 1642 01:53:15,980 --> 01:53:18,420 ...where we'd practically boxed ourselves in. 1643 01:53:18,620 --> 01:53:22,340 If we went any further into the future and told a continuing story... 1644 01:53:22,540 --> 01:53:25,090 ...it would have been a much more expensive picture. 1645 01:53:26,340 --> 01:53:28,460 (Roddy McDowall) But the story wasn't over. 1646 01:53:28,660 --> 01:53:31,580 Battle had done surprisingly well at the box office... 1647 01:53:31,780 --> 01:53:35,300 ...and the CBS network had recently garnered tremendous ratings... 1648 01:53:35,500 --> 01:53:38,700 ...with the broadcast premieres of the first three films. 1649 01:53:38,900 --> 01:53:43,220 Although Jacobs and Fox briefly considered producing another Apes movie... 1650 01:53:43,420 --> 01:53:47,340 ...it was agreed that the future of the franchise might best be explored... 1651 01:53:47,540 --> 01:53:50,780 ...in the uncharted universe of television. 1652 01:53:50,980 --> 01:53:56,660 Jacobs had considered a Planet of the Apes television series as early as 1971. 1653 01:53:56,860 --> 01:54:02,540 But the continued success of the theatrical features delayed his plans for two years. 1654 01:54:02,740 --> 01:54:06,140 He had also been busy on a number of non-Ape films... 1655 01:54:06,340 --> 01:54:09,140 ...that included Woody Allen's Play it Again, Sam... 1656 01:54:09,340 --> 01:54:13,740 ...and family musicals like Goodbye, Mr Chips and Tom Sawyer. 1657 01:54:14,660 --> 01:54:17,220 But during the production of his latest... 1658 01:54:17,420 --> 01:54:20,700 ...a musical adaptation of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn... 1659 01:54:20,900 --> 01:54:23,380 ...Arthur Jacobs died of a heart attack. 1660 01:54:23,580 --> 01:54:25,820 He was only 51 years old. 1661 01:54:26,740 --> 01:54:31,140 Arthur was very, very tough. But everybody loved him. 1662 01:54:31,860 --> 01:54:34,100 But he was always there. Always on the set. 1663 01:54:34,300 --> 01:54:37,460 I tell you, the man worked 29 hours, eight days a week. 1664 01:54:37,660 --> 01:54:39,660 He was with everything, all the time. 1665 01:54:39,860 --> 01:54:42,820 He was just wonderful. He was an extraordinary man. 1666 01:54:43,020 --> 01:54:46,420 Arthur's strongest point... 1667 01:54:46,860 --> 01:54:50,620 ...was his intense sense of the meticulous. 1668 01:54:50,820 --> 01:54:53,220 But it generated results. 1669 01:54:53,980 --> 01:54:57,460 He was one of a kind, and I do miss him. 1670 01:55:02,540 --> 01:55:05,860 (Roddy McDowall) With Jacobs' death, the Apes TV series... 1671 01:55:06,060 --> 01:55:08,700 ...was in the hands of Twentieth Century Fox. 1672 01:55:08,900 --> 01:55:12,100 With the help of writers Anthony Wilson and Art Wallace... 1673 01:55:12,300 --> 01:55:15,380 ...they began to hammer out a workable concept. 1674 01:55:15,980 --> 01:55:19,100 And, on September 13th, 1974... 1675 01:55:19,300 --> 01:55:22,100 ...Planet of the Apes premiered on CBS. 1676 01:55:24,340 --> 01:55:28,100 I starred, along with Ron Harper and James Naughton. 1677 01:55:28,300 --> 01:55:31,420 They played astronauts Alan Virdon and Peter Burke... 1678 01:55:31,620 --> 01:55:36,660 ...who are propelled through a time warp and land on Earth in the year 3085. 1679 01:55:37,660 --> 01:55:42,460 By the way, their vehicle was the same plywood spaceship used in the original film. 1680 01:55:42,780 --> 01:55:45,140 Well, we could've landed in a worse place. 1681 01:55:49,180 --> 01:55:52,260 Soon they're captured and find themselves face to face... 1682 01:55:52,460 --> 01:55:56,460 ...with a favourite Apes feature film character, Dr Zaius... 1683 01:55:56,660 --> 01:55:59,580 ...now played by stage actor Booth Colman. 1684 01:55:59,780 --> 01:56:03,700 Do you want this sacrilege and heresy to infect the rest of the humans? 1685 01:56:03,900 --> 01:56:05,940 Certainly not, Urko. 1686 01:56:06,140 --> 01:56:09,500 And by questioning them, we will learn how to avoid it. 1687 01:56:10,500 --> 01:56:14,460 Galen, you want to visit our time period, don't you? 1688 01:56:14,940 --> 01:56:19,580 Oh... Look, I really don't know about... it would be interesting, wouldn't it? 1689 01:56:19,780 --> 01:56:22,660 Maybe the humans who made that grenade are still on Earth. 1690 01:56:22,860 --> 01:56:25,340 - And maybe they have the knowledge to... - To what? 1691 01:56:25,540 --> 01:56:27,620 Build a spaceship and a computer? 1692 01:56:27,820 --> 01:56:30,980 - Yeah! Maybe. - What's a computer? 1693 01:56:31,820 --> 01:56:35,980 With the help of a sympathetic ape named Galen, the astronauts escape. 1694 01:56:36,180 --> 01:56:38,020 Watch out! 1695 01:56:39,780 --> 01:56:44,060 We kind of became The Fugitive. Each week we were caught, and then we escaped. 1696 01:56:44,260 --> 01:56:46,260 That's what each show was about. 1697 01:56:46,700 --> 01:56:51,060 And I think that television frequently winds up in a kind of a formulaic role. 1698 01:56:51,260 --> 01:56:53,780 Who's the bad guy and how will you escape? 1699 01:56:54,620 --> 01:56:57,700 (Roddy McDowall) Week after week, the trio was pursued... 1700 01:56:57,900 --> 01:57:01,100 ...by the ape military commander, General Urko. 1701 01:57:01,300 --> 01:57:05,980 I'll quarrel with anything that keeps these two humans alive. 1702 01:57:06,380 --> 01:57:11,180 Urko was played by Mark Lenard, best known for his portrayal of Mr Spock's father... 1703 01:57:11,380 --> 01:57:14,820 ...in another famous science fiction series, Star Trek. 1704 01:57:15,380 --> 01:57:19,700 The show tried to retain the elements that had made the motion picture so successful. 1705 01:57:20,660 --> 01:57:21,540 Drama. 1706 01:57:21,740 --> 01:57:24,580 Urko! You kill me, you kill yourself! 1707 01:57:24,780 --> 01:57:26,020 A bit of humour. 1708 01:57:26,220 --> 01:57:29,380 - There's a smell about you. - Well, nobody's perfect. 1709 01:57:29,580 --> 01:57:31,380 Some social commentary. 1710 01:57:31,580 --> 01:57:35,300 These humans, they think they're as good as we are. 1711 01:57:36,740 --> 01:57:38,660 And plenty of action. 1712 01:57:38,860 --> 01:57:42,740 (James Naughton) We were always whackin' some guy over the head with a stick... 1713 01:57:42,940 --> 01:57:45,500 ...or drop-kicking a guy in a monkey suit. 1714 01:57:47,420 --> 01:57:49,980 We had apes Fallin' out of trees everyhere. 1715 01:57:51,020 --> 01:57:55,220 (Roddy McDowall) The television series' most loyal audience were children. 1716 01:57:55,420 --> 01:58:01,340 But network executives claimed this was not the audience advertisers wanted to attract. 1717 01:58:01,860 --> 01:58:06,500 The show was also scheduled up against two of the highest-rated comedies of the day: 1718 01:58:06,700 --> 01:58:09,580 Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man. 1719 01:58:09,780 --> 01:58:12,780 It wasn't long before the inevitable happened. 1720 01:58:13,740 --> 01:58:19,300 On December 6th, 1974, after only four months and 13 episodes... 1721 01:58:19,500 --> 01:58:21,620 ...Planet of the Apes was cancelled. 1722 01:58:21,820 --> 01:58:27,980 And, for the first time in its history, the future of Apes was uncertain. 1723 01:58:31,380 --> 01:58:34,820 (trailer) In the beginning, there was Planet of the Apes. 1724 01:58:35,020 --> 01:58:39,260 And the most exciting series in motion-picture history began. 1725 01:58:41,580 --> 01:58:46,220 Although the demise of the television series had proved disappointing to fans... 1726 01:58:46,780 --> 01:58:49,900 ...its premiere had been accompanied by a media blitz... 1727 01:58:50,100 --> 01:58:55,420 ...that included the re-release of all five films to theatres in 1974. 1728 01:58:55,980 --> 01:58:58,380 (trailer) Now is your chance to go ape. 1729 01:59:01,700 --> 01:59:06,020 Twentieth Century Fox, long aware of Apes' popularity with children... 1730 01:59:06,220 --> 01:59:09,980 ...also launched an extensive marketing and merchandising campaign... 1731 01:59:10,180 --> 01:59:13,940 ...encouraging kids all over the country to "Go ape". 1732 01:59:17,300 --> 01:59:19,260 It was phenomenally successful. 1733 01:59:19,460 --> 01:59:23,740 There were 60 companies that were licensed to turn out something like 300 items... 1734 01:59:23,940 --> 01:59:26,820 ...and just this flood of Apes products on the market. 1735 01:59:27,220 --> 01:59:30,980 (Roddy McDowall) Ape action figures, masks, posters, games... 1736 01:59:31,180 --> 01:59:33,220 ...lunch boxes and colouring books. 1737 01:59:33,420 --> 01:59:36,820 There was even a Planet of the Apes wastepaper basket. 1738 01:59:37,540 --> 01:59:42,620 (Eric Greene) I think Apes helped pave the way for later films like Star Wars... 1739 01:59:42,820 --> 01:59:48,380 ...where you had mass merchandising blitzes, which are now common, not extraordinary. 1740 01:59:50,140 --> 01:59:52,340 (trailer) Return to the Planet of the Apes! 1741 01:59:53,740 --> 01:59:58,900 In 1975, NBC TV launched Return to the Planet of the Apes... 1742 01:59:59,100 --> 02:00:01,660 ...a half-hour Saturday morning cartoon series... 1743 02:00:01,860 --> 02:00:04,660 ...that depicted a more evolved simian culture. 1744 02:00:04,860 --> 02:00:08,220 - We got all of 'em, Urko. - Good. Take them to Ape City. 1745 02:00:08,420 --> 02:00:12,820 As in the original novel, apes were finally allowed to drive cars... 1746 02:00:14,060 --> 02:00:16,060 ...and fly airplanes. 1747 02:00:19,980 --> 02:00:23,020 Though the animated series lasted only one year... 1748 02:00:23,220 --> 02:00:26,700 ...other Ape incarnations proved to have greater longevity. 1749 02:00:26,900 --> 02:00:30,220 More than three decades after the premiere of the first film... 1750 02:00:30,420 --> 02:00:34,980 ...Apes references still manage to find their way into American pop culture. 1751 02:00:35,180 --> 02:00:37,780 ♪ THE SIMPSONS ♪ 1752 02:00:37,980 --> 02:00:41,620 ♪ I hate every ape I see ♪ 1753 02:00:41,820 --> 02:00:45,620 ♪ From chimpan A to chimpan X ♪ 1754 02:00:45,860 --> 02:00:52,340 ♪ No, you'll never make a monkey out of me ♪ 1755 02:00:53,180 --> 02:00:55,180 (whistling) 1756 02:00:57,460 --> 02:01:01,100 From films and television to merchandising and memorabilia... 1757 02:01:01,300 --> 02:01:03,820 ...Planet of the Apes and its numerous sequels... 1758 02:01:04,020 --> 02:01:07,180 ...have conquered audiences all over the world. 1759 02:01:07,380 --> 02:01:11,500 And people continue to be captivated, for many different reasons. 1760 02:01:12,620 --> 02:01:18,260 I think it just struck people's imagination. It was different. And it still is. 1761 02:01:18,580 --> 02:01:20,340 You led me around on a leash! 1762 02:01:20,540 --> 02:01:23,540 - We thought you were inferior. - Now you know better. 1763 02:01:23,900 --> 02:01:26,660 They're just as valid now as when they first came out. 1764 02:01:26,860 --> 02:01:29,100 They probably will be 30 years from now. 1765 02:01:29,620 --> 02:01:32,180 We have heads as well as hands. 1766 02:01:32,460 --> 02:01:35,460 I call upon men to let us use them. 1767 02:01:35,660 --> 02:01:40,780 Some of the social statements, unfortunately, remain with us. 1768 02:01:41,740 --> 02:01:44,460 Planet of the Apes brings them back to our attention. 1769 02:01:44,820 --> 02:01:49,260 - What's the difference? You're all monkeys. - Please! Do not say "monkey". 1770 02:01:49,860 --> 02:01:53,220 The only thing that counts in the end is power! 1771 02:01:54,180 --> 02:01:56,620 Naked, merciless force! 1772 02:01:56,820 --> 02:02:00,020 (Linda Harrison) The possibility we could do something horrible... 1773 02:02:00,220 --> 02:02:02,340 ...lurks in our consciousness. 1774 02:02:02,700 --> 02:02:06,940 To me, that is the element which has stirred so much interest. 1775 02:02:07,140 --> 02:02:08,780 It's Doomsday. 1776 02:02:10,420 --> 02:02:16,460 The films hold up as a way of getting at those issues in an accessible, entertaining way. 1777 02:02:16,660 --> 02:02:18,540 I'd like to kiss you goodbye. 1778 02:02:18,740 --> 02:02:20,620 You're so damned ugly. 1779 02:02:20,820 --> 02:02:24,180 (J Lee Thompson) Planet of the Apes depended on characterisation... 1780 02:02:24,380 --> 02:02:26,140 ...as well as adventure. 1781 02:02:26,340 --> 02:02:30,580 If you've got good characters, they'll stand the test of time. 1782 02:02:31,060 --> 02:02:34,780 If man was superior, why didn't he survive? 1783 02:02:34,980 --> 02:02:38,300 Those particular stories have had a kind of a timeless theme... 1784 02:02:38,500 --> 02:02:42,380 ...with premises that were very, very applicable to... 1785 02:02:42,580 --> 02:02:45,700 ...what people were feeling, what people should feel. 1786 02:02:47,300 --> 02:02:51,380 It has relevance in that it, as a film... 1787 02:02:52,100 --> 02:02:54,660 ...took a step up in that genre. 1788 02:02:57,860 --> 02:03:00,500 (Don Taylor) Apes is a trailblazer in this genre. 1789 02:03:00,700 --> 02:03:04,420 It probably helped to push into the things that have happened since. 1790 02:03:05,140 --> 02:03:08,700 I think the makeup, of course, is the most innovative. 1791 02:03:08,900 --> 02:03:13,900 For the first time, really, these were actors working... 1792 02:03:14,100 --> 02:03:16,580 ...and emotions coming through this makeup. 1793 02:03:17,420 --> 02:03:21,180 I was a guy that helped make those pictures work... 1794 02:03:21,380 --> 02:03:24,660 ...and it's a wonderful feeling, to go that long... 1795 02:03:24,860 --> 02:03:28,660 ...and that those pictures stand up as well as they have. 1796 02:03:29,700 --> 02:03:31,460 I believe they have a life of their own. 1797 02:03:31,660 --> 02:03:34,700 I don't think you can kill totally the Planet of the Apes. 1798 02:03:35,740 --> 02:03:37,540 There will always be an audience. 1799 02:03:37,980 --> 02:03:40,230 I still get fan mail from all over the world. 1800 02:03:40,780 --> 02:03:43,780 I think it's gonna carry, carry, carry, carry on. 1801 02:03:44,260 --> 02:03:46,140 It appeals to everybody. 1802 02:03:46,340 --> 02:03:49,820 Little kids, grown-ups, anybody... 1803 02:03:51,260 --> 02:03:54,980 ...because it widens the avenue of the imagination. 1804 02:04:01,420 --> 02:04:07,260 Ape and man, ancestors and brothers, their fates hopelessly intertwined. 1805 02:04:07,460 --> 02:04:09,820 One holds the secret of the past... 1806 02:04:10,020 --> 02:04:13,020 ...the other, the key to the future. 1807 02:04:13,220 --> 02:04:15,500 But which is which? 1808 02:04:16,060 --> 02:04:22,420 Planet of the Apes holds up a mirror and asks us simply to look at ourselves. 1809 02:04:22,620 --> 02:04:24,820 At our fears and prejudices. 1810 02:04:25,020 --> 02:04:27,020 At our hopes and dreams. 1811 02:04:27,500 --> 02:04:30,020 But, as a new millennium dawns... 1812 02:04:30,220 --> 02:04:34,540 ...can we expect more exciting adventures on the Planet of the Apes? 1813 02:04:34,740 --> 02:04:37,740 Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in the stars. 1814 02:04:38,140 --> 02:04:39,540 Or maybe... 1815 02:04:39,740 --> 02:04:41,540 ...right here... 1816 02:04:41,740 --> 02:04:43,740 ...on Earth.