Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a ...

Kingdom of the Planet ... the Apes, the 2017 film that concluded an epic trilogy starring Andy Serkis as leader of the chimps ...

With Charlton Heston playing opposite some revolutionary make up effects, off a script by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and a former HUAC blacklist-er, Planet of the Apes took everyone by ...

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner Make-up for actors playing apes took so long to do that they were required to stay in their masks even during breaktime. They had to drink their meals through straws.