Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), directed by J. Lee Thompson, is the fourth film of the Planet of the Apes series. It explores mankind's future history, as established in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), and is the most violent sequel in the series. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the rise of the ape civilization en route to their dominating planet Earth.
Building upon the description given by Cornelius and Zira before t...
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), directed by J. Lee Thompson, is the fourth film of the Planet of the Apes series. It explores mankind's future history, as established in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), and is the most violent sequel in the series. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the rise of the ape civilization en route to their dominating planet Earth.
Building upon the description given by Cornelius and Zira before the Presidential Committee in the previous film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), a disease killed the world's cats and dogs in 1983, leaving humans with no pet animals. To replace them, humans began keeping monkeys and apes as household pets. In time, humans noticed the apes' capacity to learn and adapt; thus they taught them to perform menial household tasks. Moreover, by 1991, the United States of America has become oppressive and fascist in culture, of uniformed classes and castes, based upon ape slave labour.
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