I occasionally–or often, depending on the films I’m going through–start a post saying how much I was dreading the film and how well it turned out. Usually, these are films I used to love and haven’t seen in ten years and was worried about them. I wasn’t dreading Escape from the Planet of the Apes, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Kim Hunter'
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971, Don Taylor)
July 20th, 2006 · No Comments
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Don Taylor· Eric Braeden· Kim Hunter· Paul Dehn· Pierre Boulle· Ricardo Montalban· Roddy McDowall· ★★★
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, Ted Post)
July 14th, 2006 · No Comments
On rare occasion, I watch (and on even rarer occasion, finish watching) an utter dreg of a film. A film so bad I misuse the word dregs, which apparently–since it refers to a liquid form–must be used as a plural. Beneath the Planet of the Apes is just such a film. Immediately, with its use […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Charlton Heston· Don Pedro Colley· James Franciscus· James Gregory· Kim Hunter· Maurice Evans· Mort Abrahams· Paul Dehn· Ted Post· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner)
July 10th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Planet of the Apes is, I’m fairly sure, the first film I’ve ever watched and known the director started in television. Franklin J. Schaffner has a lot of dynamic shots–helicopter shots, three dimensional motion and camera movement (which is rarer than one would think)–but none of them go together. It’s like watching a different movie […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Charlton Heston· Franklin J. Schaffner· James Whitmore· Kim Hunter· Michael Wilson· Pierre Boulle· Rod Serling· Roddy McDowall· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ



