Planet of the Apes - The Legacy Collection (Planet of the Apes [1968] / Beneath the / Escape from the / Conquest of the / Battle for the) | ![Planet of the Apes - The Legacy Collection (Planet of the Apes [1968] / Beneath the / Escape from the / Conquest of the / Battle for the)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DZNWB1Z0L._SL160_.jpg) | Directors: David Comtois, Don Taylor, Franklin J. Schaffner, J. Lee Thompson, Kevin Burns
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Charlton Heston
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  54 reviews
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 605 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 3.7
MPN: 2232838
UPC: 024543228363
EAN: 0024543228363
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1973
Release Date: March 28, 2006
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| • | Planet of the ApesCharlton Heston and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Heston is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and |
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 11/04/2008 Run time: 494 minutes
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 Planet of the Apes The Legacy Collection November 15, 2009
Linda Cassel (Abingdon, Md)
Husband was very pleased with this dvd, Great gift for anyone who likes these movies. 5 stars
Watch Them All August 16, 2009
W. Rosen (USA)
While the first is still the best, all the others are just as fun to watch. It's great to see how many times the writers could go back and forth in time to come up with the next movie. And at the price of the box set each movie is a bargain so grab the set and have an ape fest!
Amazing! August 6, 2009
Kenneth Jones (United States)
This product is AMAZING! I'm not going to describe all of the different movies in the set because that has already been done to death in these reviews. But if you even slightly like these movies when they were on TV you have to get this collection. They are even more amazing, and if you watch them one right after another you will get into the movie a lot better. They did a very unique circle with the movies. You start with the first movie, and then watch each of the others, each movie starting off in the EXACT same spot the previous move left off. When you get to the last movie is leaves of at the exact spot where the first movie started. LOL so it gives you this amazing feeling of time travel, and if you were to watch this collection over and over again you would be stuck in the time loop yourself. When you watch the last movie and see how it leaves off you are tempted to insert the first moive and finish it... oh wait, the first movie starts it.... or does it? Its so amazing.
 A classic and four lesser sequels. June 11, 2009
Joseph M. Perorazio (Columbus, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The five Planet of the Apes movies start out with a classic (No. 1), and end with an unintentionally hilarious 5th film. One can see, when viewing the films in order, that each successive entry in the series had a lower budget, and fewer big stars (Going from Charlton Heston to Paul Williams is quite a leap into D-list territory). Still, as a (relatively) cohesive story arc, the series holds up despite its obvious shortcomings, and has become a sci-fi standard.
The DVD transfers are generally good (the first film being the best by far), although special features are minimal (the previously-produced documentary with Roddy McDowall, and theatrcal trailers).
But for a budget price, this is a still a no-brainer purchase for sci-fi fans. And for those who want to forget the hideous Mark Wahlberg remake.
Go Bananas over this set :) May 5, 2009
D. Steigman (USA)
With all the reviews of each film all over the place, I will make short and simple. Planet of the Apes is the best of the whole series, however the other films, Beneath, Conquest, Escape and Battle for the Planet of the Apes all are worth watching. They might not be as good as the first, but they all have their own merits. Obviously the budgets sank as the series moved on, but they are all entertaining in their own way. To me it was worth owning the entire set, you get the whole series, widescreen, THX , super sharp transfers and a bonus disc for under 40.00. Even if I didn't like one of the movies Id still get the whole set , which is what I usually do if I enjoy most of the movies of a set (3 out 4, 2 out of 3,etc)
For those who haven't gone Blu-Ray this is still the best set to get.
In closing, yes Planet of the Apes is the superior film of the whole bunch but I think the rest all hold up well with great acting, stories & the constant battle of man vs ape,plus the endings are incredible. To me the whole set is worth getting...
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