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All eight films in the science-fiction franchise thus far. In
'Planet of the Apes' (1968) a group of astronauts, led by George
Taylor (Charlton Heston), c lands on a strange planet where
mute humans are treated as slaves by intelligent apes. Taylor is
hunted down and captured by horse-riding gorillas, and then taken
for experimentation by chimpanzee Dr Zira (Kim Hunter). When Zira
discovers Taylor's intelligence, she and her fiancé, Cornelius
(Roddy McDowall), appeal to the governing council on his behalf,
but the appeal fails, leaving the astronaut no choice but to go
on the run. Fleeing for his freedom, Taylor soon makes a shocking
discovery about the provenance of this strange planet. In
'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' (1970) astronaut Brent (James
Franciscus) is on a special mission to rescue George Taylor
(Heston). After travelling to the ape village where he was
imprisoned, he meets Dr Zira (Hunter) and learns that Taylor was
last seen in the Forbidden Zone. Setting off in pursuit he soon
discovers that his colleague has been taken prisoner by an
underground society of telepathic mutant humans who worship an
atomic warhead. In 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' (1971) Dr
Zira (Hunter), Cornelius (McDowall) and Dr Milo (Sal Mineo)
escape the nuclear devastation of Earth by travelling back in
time in Taylor's spaceship, arriving in Los Angeles in the year
1973. They are initially held in captivity in a zoo, where Milo
is attacked and killed by a savage gorilla. When Zira and
Cornelius prove their intelligence they are released and hailed
as celebrities, but some resent the apes' arrival, seeing them as
a threat to human supremacy. In 'Conquest of the Planet of the
Apes' (1972) the year is now 1991. Caesar (McDowall), the son of
Zira and Cornelius, has been sheltered for 18 years by circus
owner Armando (Ricardo Montalban). Following a plague which wiped
out all cats and dogs, apes have been adopted as pets by humans,
but when Caesar sees them being treated as slaves, he leads his
fellow simians in rebellion against their overlords. 'Battle for
the Planet of the Apes' (1973) opens in the year 2670 with the
ape Lawgiver (John Huston) relating how, following the 1991
simian rebellion, mankind embarked on a terrible nuclear war. In
the devastation which followed, Caesar (McDowall) and the apes
seized control, ruling benevolently over the human survivors, and
working to rebuild society. However, civil war was being fomented
by ambitious gorilla general Aldo (Claude Akins), and when Caesar
ventured into the devastated city to seek out s of his
late parents, Cornelius and Zira, he incurred the wrath of a
group of mutant human survivors. In 'Planet of the Apes' (2001),
Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of the 1968 original, the year is
2029, and Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a
spaceship trying to teach apes how to become space pilots. During
a routine reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is
sucked into a space-time hole and minutes later makes a c
landing on a strange planet where humans are subjugated by
talking apes. Just as a quick death at the hands of the violent
ape leader General Thade (Tim Roth) seems inevitable, Leo is
rescued by the ape scientist Ari (Helena Bonham Carter). In 'Rise
of the Planet of the Apes' (2011) James Franco stars as Will
Rodman, a genetic engineer working in present-day San Francisco
who is performing scientific tests on apes in his attempt to find
a cure for Alzheimer's disease. His first test subject is Caesar
(Andy Serkis), the prototype of a new breed of ape with
human-like intelligence. But when Caesar breaks free, a
revolution is triggered and an epic war for supremacy breaks out
between humankind and the primates of the world. Finally, in
'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' (2014), Caesar, the
hyper-intelligent ape produced by human experimentation, is now
the leader of a growing band of cognisant simians as a fragile
truce prevails between the apes and humans. Many consider the
outbreak of war to only be a matter of time, however, since the
human population has been vastly reduced by a devastating virus
and their role as the dominant species on Earth is in question.
As tensions rise, it may only take a single spark to trigger an
explosive war that will pit the humans against the apes in an
all-out battle for survival...
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ATTENTION REQUIRED: Out of 8 discs, 6 discs are region free and
2 disc has region 2.