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Walkthrough for Escape from Pleasure Planetv1.2Created 14-5-16, updated 26-1-17From the menu, select New Game.Setpiece: 30 Seconds to Death.A peaceful wedding party is attacked and a mysterious man steals an invention. In orbit, Tycho responds to the distress call and moves to intercept the ship.Exit the warrant screen when it appears.From the menu, select External View.Scan the ship to get the blueprint, this is optional but gives more story later on.Tycho will add the blueprint to his inventory.Click on the ship, Doug will want to know what to do.Click on the ship again, select 'talk.' Tycho and Brutus will meet each other for the first time.At the end of the conversation, Brutus will cut off the conversation.Click on the ship again, this time, select 'Fire!'
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The Pleasuretron will fire on the fleeing ship.It will start to vent plasma but you will no longer be about to die. The text will change from '30 Seconds to Death' to '30 Seconds to Escape'.Run down the timer by moving around the ship (changing views, etc). The target ship will jump away.From the external view, click on the plasma.Scan the plasma trail.This will unlock the coordindates for the planet Arcadia.From the menu, select View Bridge.Talk to Randy.Select Arcadia from the list of special co-ordinates.Click on 'Engage'.The ship will arrive in orbit around Arcadia.From the menu, select Away Mission (transmat).Doug says 'Captain!' It doesn't matter what option you choose, Doug will give you a bicorder - a scanning and data analysis device.Setpiece: Crash LandingTycho arrives on Arcadia, where Brutus' ship has crashlanded.Click on the underpants.Tycho adds underpants to inventory.Talk to Ship.Ship says 'It's okay everybody.
Select 'You seem to be ignoring the gravity of your situation.' Select 'Where's Brutus?'
Select 'I'll look around.' Threaten the ship by collecting the branch, using it on the box from the crash, and then click on the box again.The ship will be spooked and promise to talk.Talk to Ship.Ship says 'I'll tell you what you want!' Select 'Like what?' Select 'Hang on, I'll look around.'
Now the ship is close to falling, you need to secure it.Use underpants on tree.Talk to Ship.Ship says 'sob. Setpiece: Sebastian's Pod.There is a stray carebear flying solo near Sebastian. Click on it or else Tycho will fall through the clouds.Talk to Sebastian.Sebastian says 'You're over-dressed but fair go, each to their own.' Select 'Can you shut down this pod?
I'm investigating a crime.' Sebastian says 'You're over-dressed but fair go, each to their own.'
Select 'Thanks.' Sebastian will give you a task to collect four items. Use a pen and paper to work out which carebear gets which gift.Talk to Sebastian.Interact with Sebastian.Sebastian says 'I've always wanted to collect to them all.' Select 'What's the next chore. I mean, achievement?' Start collecting hearts (at least 10). Eventually the fantasy will overload and shut down.Back in the lab, the pod has been damaged at some point, which is why it is buggy.
Scan the damage to find the software bug.Scan the feeding bug.Tycho adds bicorder loaded with software bug to inventory.Click on stop scanning.Interact with Sebastian.Sebastian says 'I was having a perfectly good time. Flying, carefree, with only the wind through my loin cloth for company.' Select 'I'm sorry but it needed to be done.' Select 'It was just a game, you can always play later.'
Select 'I have work to do.' Talk to MIS-TRISS, she will explain that the founder's original three prototype pods must be used to override the security system.Go to facility waiting room.Go to main foyer.Go to avenue of honour.Click on the statues.Go to main foyer.Talk to MIS-TRISS.Select 'What about those statues outside?'
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MIS-TRISS tells you about the founders.Ask MIS-TRISS where they are, she will give you the co-ordinates of the first founder.Look at tycho.Tycho says 'Sleek and slim, it's my state-of-the-art bicorder.' Select 'Request transmat.' From the menu, select View Bridge.Interact with Randy.Setpiece: Arcadian's AsylumSelect Panoptica from the list of available planets.From the menu, select Engage.From the menu, select Away Mission (transmat).Click on the distant panoptica.Tycho says 'I've seen cheerier places. Should we go on?'
Select 'Yes.' Go to Arcadian's cell.Click on the punch cards.Select 'Can I take these?' Tycho adds 'NOT' punch card to inventory.Tycho adds 'XOR' punch card to inventory.Tycho adds 'OR' punch card to inventory.Talk to Arcadian.Arcadian says 'Not you.
Select 'What happened to you?' Click on the makeshift computer.Tycho says 'What do you want me to do?' Select 'Use the terminal.' Click on Tycho.Tycho says 'Leave terminal?' Select 'Yes'Use 'NOT' punch card on makeshift computer. This will diable half the security field.Click on the makeshift computer.Tycho says 'What do you want me to do?'
Select 'Use the terminal.' Click on the first cherries.Click on the second cherries.Click on Tycho.Tycho says 'Leave terminal?' Select 'Yes'Go to front desk.Collect the two name plates and then swap the name tags of the guards.Go to Arcadian's cell.Use 'NOT' punch card on makeshift computer.Click on the makeshift computer.Tycho says 'What do you want me to do?' Select 'Use the terminal.' Click on the third cherries.Click on the fourth cherries.Click on the fifth cherries.Talk to the little Arcadian sim.Arcadian says 'Quick Captain, we don't have much time.' Select 'I need your help.' Arcadian will give you his pod number.Click on the Tycho 64.Tycho says 'Leave terminal?'
Select 'Yes'Go to front desk.Look at tycho.Tycho says 'Sleek and slim, it's my state-of-the-art bicorder.' Select 'Request transmat.' From the menu, select View Bridge.Tycho returns to Pleasure Planet with the ID of Arcadian's podTalk to Randy.Select Arcadia from the list of available planets.From the menu, select Engage.From the menu, select Away Mission (transmat).Go to neuro lab.Setpiece: Faith's PodClick on the terminal.Select Arcadian's old pod from the list of pods (or enter the id). When the security message appears, use the software bug in your inventory on it. It will glitch.
Remove it and enter the pod.From the menu, select Enter Pod.Click on the Chip's locker.Go to the lockerroom.Interact with Chip.Chip says 'Are you the new assistant coach?' Select 'I need you to shut down this pod.' Chip says 'Are you the new assistant coach?' Select 'Assistant coach?'
Go to the lockerroom.Go to the lockerroom.Talk to Coach.Chip says 'Coach.?' Select 'Have we met?' Coach says 'Problem?' Select 'Brutus!
Prepare to go down!' Select errormsg.Talk to Coach.Coach says 'We can't hurt each other here, Tycho.' Select 'You can't escape, Brutus.' Coach says 'We can't hurt each other here, Tycho.'
Select 'Stalemate.' Coach says 'We can't hurt each other here, Tycho.' Select 'I'm done talking to you.' Talk to Coach.Coach says 'Blow the whole thing up, I say.'
Select 'We can't just go blundering about someone's v-fantasy.' Look at codetear.Talk to Bug.Talk to Bug.Talk to Bug.From the menu, select menubug.Bug says 'Hi Captain!' Click on the fresh towel.Go to the lockerroom.From the menu, select menubug.Select 'Let's talk later.' Tycho adds fresh towel to inventory.Click on the 'fresh towel'Tycho adds fresh towel to inventory.Click on the Chip's locker.Click on the Faith's locker.Look at shower.Go to the lockerroom.Talk to Faith.Faith says 'Will you teach me how to be straight?'
Select 'What?!?' Faith says 'I'm not leaving here until I'm straight.' Select 'Why do you want that?' Faith says 'Besides, it's my choice. Will you help me?' Select 'Yes.' Go to the lockerroom.Click on the Chip's locker.Use fresh towel on Chip's locker.Go to the lockerroom.Interact with Faith.Faith says 'Still nothing.
What's wrong with me?' Select 'Nothing's wrong with you!' Setpiece: Ludwig's FollySelect Ludwig's planet from the list of available planets.From the menu, select Engage.From the menu, select View Bridge.From the menu, select Away Mission (transmat).Randy says 'It's not too dangerous, is it, Captain?' Select 'Yes.' Randy says 'Wait, do you mean 'yes' it's too dangerous or 'yes' it's not dangerous?' Select 'Err.'
Now Tycho is floating in space. You need to vent your oxygen tank in the direction of the asteroid.
Wait until you can see the asteroid and look at the angle Tycho is facing. Tycho will tell you if you get it wrong.For example, if Tycho's head is pointing towards the astroid, click on the centre tank to vent both tanks.
If the asteroid is on Tycho's right, click the left tank to move towards the base. Patience is the key in this puzzle - wait for the scene with Tycho in relation to the asteroid base.After you reach the asteroid, Tycho will wake up dangling from the ceiling.Click on the Tired alien.Interact with Ludwig.Click on the Space Captain.Click on the strange device.Click on the damaged cable.strange device says '. Select 'Ludwig, I need your pod number.' Strange device says '. Select 'It's not too late, Ludwig, perhaps we can stabilise the.'
Strange device says 'Release me back into the ether. End my suffering.' Select 'Ok, Ludwig.'
From the menu, select bicorder.Look at tycho.Tycho says 'Sleek and slim, it's my state-of-the-art bicorder.' Select 'Request transmat.' From the menu, select View Bridge.Interact with Randy.Select Arcadia from the list of available planets.From the menu, select Engage.From the menu, select Away Mission (transmat).Go to avenue of honour.Go to neuro lab.Click on the terminal.Select Ludwig's old pod from the list of available pods.From the menu, select Enter Pod.Setpiece: The Garden of Forbidden LoveTycho will arrive in a tropical paradise, where two men from a Russian-themed world are honeymooning. Astronov has blond hair, Lazar's is brown.Talk to Astronov.Go to the forest.Bug will want your attention, give it to him.Go to tropical bar.Talk to the anlloyd, it will ask for cronkberries.
Keep leaving the bar scene and returning until the garden is fully grown.Anlloyd says 'However, I need you to find some cronkberries.' Select 'Cronkberries?' Click on the garden.Use cronkberries on Anlloyd.Item cronkberries not in inventoryTycho adds coconut soup to inventory.Go to the forest.Go to the treehouse.Use coconut soup on Astronov.Interact with Astronov.Go to the forest.Go to tropical bar.Interact with Anlloyd.Anlloyd says 'Of course! I'm ready to go, I just need some pirmitrox.'
Select 'Pirmitrox?' Go to the lagoon.Click on the primitrox.Tycho adds primitrox to inventory.Go to tropical bar.Use primitrox on Anlloyd.Tycho adds coconut steak to inventory.Go to the forest.Go to the treehouse.Use coconut steak on Astronov.Interact with Astronov.Talk to Anlloyd.Anlloyd says 'Say no more! I have the perfect meal. I just need some inverted abatego.' Select 'Inverted abatego?' Setpiece: Xian's PodTycho will arrive in a strange, decaying world at dusk.Follow the glow on the correct portal to find the campsite (probably North, North, East).Go to the camp.Interact with little girl.Mess about with the fire a few times until it is develops a plume and the beast roars.Go to the tomb.Click on the tombstone.Go to the camp.Interact with scared guard.scared guard says 'What brings you here?'
Select 'That tomb.' Go to the tomb.Click on the tombstone.Click on the tomb.Go to the camp.Talk to little girl.Go to the ruins.Go West, North, North, West and find the spade.Click on the spade.Tycho adds spade to inventory.Go to the camp.Use spade on sand.Use spare pikes on pit.Item pikes spare not in inventoryClick on the sandpile.Talk to scared guard.
He'll glitch out.Trying clicking on items until the beast appears.Arcadia's safety system will activate, but clicking on the error message shows that Brutus can bypass it.Talk to Bug.Talk to Bug.Talk to scared guard.Interact with scared guard.scared guard says 'It's time.' Select 'Time. Walk through different scenes until the static overwhelms Tycho. A pod will appear.Click on the Tycho's pod.Tycho will return to the lab with the old pod now empty.Click on the Iris' old pod.MIS-TRISS says 'This is the last of the prototype pods.' Select 'Can you use it to shut down the last bays?' MIS-TRISS says 'If we do this, Brutus will know we have found him.
There will be no turning back. Are you sure Captain?'
This is pretty much your last chance to visit other optional pods such as Bazzarell's bar, etc.Select 'Yes, I'm sure, MIS-TRISS.' Talk to MIS-TRISS.MIS-TRISS says 'I.
I suppose so. Please standby.' Select 'MIS-TRISS, how can you be helping him???' Talk to Brutus.Brutus says 'I should thank you.' Select 'Thank me???' Click on the quantum network bridge.Click on the butterfly until it appears.Talk to Brutus.Brutus says 'I'm so close to victory, I can feel it.'
Select 'You killed Bug.' Talk to MIS-TRISS.MIS-TRISS says 'And my safety protocols prevent me from letting you harm others.'
Select 'MIS-TRISS can't help you, Brutus.' Click on the quantum network bridge.Brutus says 'Tycho, MIS-TRISS trusts you. Tell it to disable the safety protocols. 'Select 'Do as he says, MIS-TRISS.' Talk to MIS-TRISS.MIS-TRISS says 'What should I do, Tycho?'
Select 'Give him what he wants.' With the safeties disabled, we enter Brutus' pod. Everything seems normal.Setpiece: One Man's PleasureClick on the groom.Celebrant says 'We are gathered here today to join.' Select 'Brutus Maximillius.' Celebrant says '.
Select 'Tycho. It's your turn.'
Celebrant says '. And is therefore not to be entered into lightly but rather reverently and solemnly.' Select 'Please continue, your honour.'
Celebrant says '. Let them speak now or forever hold their peace.' Celebrant says 'Who gives this thief to be married to this man?' Select 'Thief? This isn't my fantasy.'
Celebrant says 'Tycho, do you take Brutus for your lawful wedded partner, to be joined in matrimony?' Select 'Don't answer that, Tycho!' Celebrant says 'Will you love, honour and cherish him from this day forward, above all others, for as long as you both shall live?' Select 'MIS-TRISS, please, stop this!' Celebrant says 'Brutus, do you take Tycho for your lawful wedded partner, to be joined in matrimony?'
Celebrant says 'Will you love, honour and cherish him from this day forward, above all others, for as long as you both shall live?' Celebrant says 'We shall take a moment now while the groom selects a song to carry us forward.'
Select 'Your Body Is A Wonderland' by John Mayer'Celebrant says 'Now, Brutus, if you could repeat the marriage vow also.' Select 'I, Brutus, take thee, Tycho, to be my wedded husband.' Brutus says '. To have and to hold.' For better or worse.'
Brutus says '. For richer or poorer.'
In sickness and in health.' Brutus says '. To love, honour and cherish, until death do us part.'
Select 'Forever and ever and ever and ever.' Celebrant says 'May I have the rings please.' Select 'No, not the rings!' Celebrant says 'Please exchange rings.' Select 'With this ring I thee wed.'
Celebrant says 'I now pronounce you legally married. You may seal your promises with a kiss.'
Select 'This is it, isn't it? There's no escape.'
Tycho reveals that the safety protocols were designed to stop MIS-TRISS from hurting the guests. Without the safeties she can punish Brutus. He begs Tycho to save him from his own v-fantasy.Interact with MIS-TRISS.MIS-TRISS says 'Are you sure you're done here, Captain?'
Let's leave.' Setpiece: Captain Tycho Takes A HolidayTalk to MIS-TRISS.MIS-TRISS says 'Is there anything else I can do for you, Captain?' Select 'No, MIS-TRISS, it's time for me to go.' Tycho and MIS-TRISS will talk for a while and Tycho will then decide to take a holiday, rejoining Sebastian in his pod.The End.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes | |
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Directed by | Don Taylor |
Produced by | Arthur P. Jacobs |
Written by | Paul Dehn |
Based on | Characters created by Pierre Boulle |
Starring | Roddy McDowall Kim Hunter Bradford Dillman Natalie Trundy Eric Braeden Sal Mineo Ricardo Montalbán |
Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
Edited by | Marion Rothman |
Production company | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.06 million[1] |
Box office | $12.3 million[2] |
Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 science fiction film directed by Don Taylor and written by Paul Dehn. It stars Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman and Ricardo Montalbán. It is the third of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, the second being Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).[3] Its plot centers on many social issues of the day including scientific experimentation on animals, nuclear war and government intrusion. The film was well received by critics, getting the best reviews of the four Planet of the Apes sequels. It was followed by Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
Plot summary[edit]
During the events of the preceding film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, occurring off-screen, Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) escaped Earth prior to its destruction when they accompanied their fellow chimpanzee Dr. Milo (Sal Mineo) in salvaging and repairing the spaceship originally used by Taylor. The shock wave of Earth's destruction sends the ship through a time warp that brings the apes to 1973 Earth, splashing down off the Pacific coast of the United States.
The apes are transported to a secluded ward of the Los Angeles Zoo, under the observation of scientists Dr. Stephanie Branton (Natalie Trundy) and Dr. Lewis Dixon (Bradford Dillman). With Dr. Milo explaining their situation in private, the apes decide not to let the humans know that they can speak while agreeing not to reveal Earth's destruction from the Ape War. However Zira's impatience exposes the apes' power of speech during an experiment and Dr. Milo is killed moments later by a zoo gorilla who became agitated by the chimpanzees' argument. Lewis tries to communicate with the apes that he is peaceful and he wishes to treat them as equals, winning their friendship as a result.
A Presidential Commission is formed to investigate the return of Taylor's spaceship and determine how atypically intelligent apes came to be aboard it. The apes are brought before the Commission, where they publicly reveal their ability to speak. The council asks them about Taylor, but Cornelius and Zira tell them that they know nothing about him. They reveal that they came from the future and escaped Earth when war broke out. They are welcomed as guests of the government. Cornelius and Zira secretly tell Stephanie and Lewis that they did know about Taylor, explain how humans are treated in the ape-dominated future, and about the Earth's destruction. Stephanie and Lewis are shocked but still sympathetic, the latter advising the couple to keep this information secret until they can gauge the potential reaction of their hosts.
The apes become celebrities, and are lavished with gifts and media attention. They come to the attention of the President's Science Advisor Dr. Otto Hasslein (Eric Braeden), who discovers Zira is pregnant. Fearing for the future of the human race, he offers her champagne (for which she has developed a taste) to loosen her inhibitions and questions her further while recording it. Her candid responses enable him to convince the Commission that Cornelius and Zira must be subjected to more rigorous questioning.
Hasslein insists that he simply wants to know how apes became dominant over men. Cornelius reveals that the human race will cause its own downfall and become dominated by simians, and that simian aggression against humans will lead to Earth's destruction by a weapon made by humans. Zira explains that the gorillas started the war, and the orangutans supported the gorillas, but the chimpanzees had nothing to do with it. Hasslein suspects that the apes are not speaking the whole truth.
During the original hearing, Zira had accidentally revealed that she dissected humans in the course of her work. Hasslein orders Lewis to administer a truth serum to her while Cornelius is confined elsewhere. Lewis assures Zira that the serum will have the same effect as champagne. As a result of the serum, Hasslein learns details about Zira's examination and experimentation on humans along with her knowledge of Taylor.
Zira joins Cornelius in confinement while Hasslein takes his findings to the President (William Windom), who reluctantly must abide by the council's ruling to have Zira's pregnancy be terminated and that both apes be sterilized. In their chambers, Cornelius labels Hasslein and the others savages for Zira's treatment as she reminds Cornelius that she did the same thing to humans and Taylor called them savages. Zira is relieved to have revealed the truth because she was tired of lying. Cornelius fears that the truth will get them killed. When an orderly arrives to offer the apes food, his playful reference to their unborn child as a 'little monkey' make Cornelius lose his temper and he knocks the orderly to the floor, before escaping with Zira. Cornelius assumes he merely knocked the orderly out, but he is actually dead. Hasslein uses the tragedy in support of his claim that the apes are a threat and calls for their execution, but is ordered by the president to bring them in alive as he will not endorse punishment for the orderly's death until due process has been served.
Branton and Dixon help the apes to escape, taking them to a circus run by Señor Armando (Ricardo Montalbán), where an ape named Heloise has just given birth. Zira gives birth to a son, whom she names Milo in honor of their deceased friend. When Hasslein, knowing that Zira's labor was imminent, orders a search of all circuses and zoos, Armando insists the apes leave for their safety. Lewis arranges for the apes to hide out in the shipyard in the Los Angeles harbor until the coast is clear to return to the circus as it heads to Florida, giving Cornelius a pistol at the former's request as the couple do not want to be taken alive.
Hasslein tracks the apes to the shipping yard and mortally wounds Zira when she refuses to hand over the infant, firing several shots into the infant before being killed by Cornelius. Cornelius is shot by a sniper and falls, Zira tossing the dead baby over the side and crawling to die with her husband, witnessed by a grieving Lewis and Stephanie.
As Armando's circus prepares to leave for Florida, it is revealed that Zira switched babies with Heloise prior to leaving the circus and that Armando is aware of this. Milo begins to talk.
Cast[edit]
- Roddy McDowall as Cornelius
- Kim Hunter as Zira
- Bradford Dillman as Dr. Lewis Dixon
- Natalie Trundy as Dr. Stephanie Branton
- Eric Braeden as Dr. Otto Hasslein
- William Windom as President of the United States
- Sal Mineo as Dr. Milo
- Albert Salmi as E-1
- Jason Evers as E-2
- John Randolph as the Chairman
- Harry Lauter as General Winthrop
- M. Emmet Walsh as Aide
- Roy Glenn as the Lawyer
- Peter Forster as the Cardinal
- Bill Bonds as the TV Newscaster
- James Bacon as General Faulkner
- Ricardo Montalbán as Armando
In this film, actor Roddy McDowall returns to the character of Cornelius which he played in the first film but not in the second. A new ape character of Dr. Milo is introduced played by actor Sal Mineo. Charlton Heston, star of the first film and supporting actor in the second, appears in this third installment only in two brief flashback sequences.
Production[edit]
Despite Beneath the Planet of the Apes ending in a way that seemed to prevent the series from continuing forward, 20th Century Fox still wanted a sequel. Roddy McDowall, in the franchise documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes, stated that Arthur P. Jacobs sent Beneath screenwriter Paul Dehn a telegram concerning the sequel that read 'Apes exist, Sequel required.' and Dehn decided to create an out from the destructive ending of Beneath by having Cornelius and Zira going back in time with a Leonardo da Vinci-like ape after fixing Taylor's spaceship before the Earth was destroyed. Dehn also consulted Pierre Boulle, writer of the Planet of the Apes novel, to imbue his script with similar satirical elements. The screenplay, originally titled Secret of the Planet of the Apes, accommodated the smaller budget by having fewer people in ape make-up, and attracted director Don Taylor by its humor and focus on the chimpanzee couple.
Dehn also added to the latter part of the film regarding the chase for Cornelius, Zira and their son references to racial conflicts and a few religious overtones to the story of Jesus - a line of dialogue even has the President comparing the plan to kill an unborn child to the Massacre of the Innocents.[4][5] While Kim Hunter had to be convinced by the studio to make Beneath, she liked the script for Escape from the Planet of the Apes and accepted the job, though Hunter also stated that 'I was very glad I was killed off' and Zira was not required anymore after that film. Hunter stated that despite the friendly atmosphere on the set, she and Roddy McDowall felt a sense of isolation for being the only people dressed as chimpanzees.[citation needed] Production was rushed due to the low budget, being filmed in only six weeks,[6] from November 30, 1970 to January 19, 1971.[7]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
According to Variety, the film earned $5,560,000 in rentals at the North American box office.[8]
Critical[edit]
The film currently holds an 78% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. The critical consensus reads: 'One of the better Planet of the Apes sequels, Escape is more character-driven than the previous films, and more touching as a result.'[9]
Roger Greenspun of The New York Times was positive, finding the premise 'quite beautiful' with the theme of human guilt 'richly ambivalent, because the monsters are scarcely monstrous and the guilt is a function of unassailable strategic intelligence.'[10]Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, 'Comparatively, it is much better than the second, which was awful, but not as good as the first, which was quite good.'[11] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called it 'an excellent film. Far better than last year's followup and almost as good as the original 'Planet of the Apes.'[12]Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film 'works largely because Miss Hunter and McDowall, working under Don Taylor's deft direction, are such gifted actors and because John Chambers' chimpanzee makeup is so convincing, as it was in the other pictures.'[13]David Pirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, 'Infuriatingly, Escape from the Planet of the Apes continues the downward trend of a science-fiction series that started out with much ingenuity and promise .. the film is painfully sentimental in its attitude to the chimps, with Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall overplaying and vulgarising their former roles to the point where it's hard to feel much concern about their final destruction.'[14]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN978-0-8108-4244-1. p256
- ^'Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Box Office Information'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
- ^'Those Damned Dirty Apes!'. www.mediacircus.net. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^'The Secret Behind Escape', Escape from the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray
- ^Hofstede, David. Planet of the Apes: An Unofficial Companion
- ^Chimp Life, by Tom Weaver & Michael Brunas - Starlog (November 1990)
- ^Planet of the apes : 40-year evolution / written by Lee Pfeiffer & Dave Worrall. Published by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2008.
- ^'All-time Film Rental Champs', Variety, 7 January 1976 p 46
- ^Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^Greenspun, Roger (May 29, 1971). 'Escape From the Planet of the Apes' Proves Entertaining'. The New York Times. 10.
- ^Siskel, Gene (May 24, 1971). 'Planet of Apes..' Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. 14.
- ^Murphy, Arthur D. (May 26, 1971). 'Film Reviews: Escape From The Planet Of The Apes'. Variety. 23.
- ^Thomas, Kevin (May 27, 1971). 'Third 'Ape' Film Opens Engagement'. Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 12.
- ^Pirie, David (August 1971). 'Escape From the Planet of the Apes'. The Monthly Film Bulletin. 38 (451): 164.
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