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The 1968 classic movie Planet of the Apes will be showing at PlayhouseSquare Cinemas on Saturday, August 17 at 8pm. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on the 1963 French novel “La Planète des Singes” by Pierre Boulle, the movie stars iconic actor Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter and Linda Harrison.
The movie is about a crew of astronauts who wake up after a deep hibernation to find that their ship has crash landed on a strange planet in the distant future. The planet is overrun by intelligent and technologically advanced apes that enslave and oppress the more primitive humans. Taylor (played by Heston) is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat and becoming mute. As the movie progresses, he learns more about the apes’ way of living and realizes that they may not be so different from humans after all.
The movie begins at exactly 8pm at the Palace Theatre. Tickets cost $2 each and are available online at www.playhousesquare.org.
