

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.7M
- Box office
- $9.7M
- Language
- English
- army
- circus
- dystopia
- pet
- insurrection
- prequel
- ape
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG29 Jun 1972
- PhysicalPGDVD15 Aug 2000
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1524 Sept 1972
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1229 Jun 1972
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical153 Nov 1972
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1629 Jun 1972
FranceFR
- Theatrical129 Aug 1972
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray16 Oct 2012
- Digital / OTTDisney+23 Apr 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1210 Aug 1972
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1524 Sept 1972
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT31 Jan 1973
JapanJP
- Theatrical22 Jul 1972
MexicoMX
- TheatricalA27 Jul 1972
NetherlandsNL
- Physical6DVD18 Jun 2007
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes was released on 29 June 1972.
Audience reviews
4- A8/10
Al Jolson
7/28/2017
**A few guys in rubber masks throwing some chairs around does not make a global conquest.** I understand the budgetary restraints but come on. Twenty guys running amok with a chair leg is way to weak. The poster exclaims _a spectacle like never before witnessed_ and what do we get? A small crowd of men in boiler suits wielding a cabbage at the authorities. _I swear one of the Apes even threw a comb at a pol…
- R7/10
r96sk
2/27/2022
<em>'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'</em> is the weakest of the first four films. It's watchable, still. It shares similarities to <em>'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'</em> from the rebooted 2010s series, though it isn't quite as entertaining or convincing. Serviceable it is, however. Roddy McDowall stays in the franchise, but as a different character in Caesar. McDowall is the clear standout from the cast, th…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
6/8/2023
Last year, "Cornelius" and "Zira" were back in the 1970s. Now we scoot forward a few millennia and find that the Simian flu has robbed humankind of it's pets. Always in need of something to feed, comb and to take for walks, we have decided to domesticate chimps. The thing is, though, that this plan has started to spiral out of control. The animals have had just about enough of being the substitutes for our erstwhile …
- W5/10
Wuchak
3/22/2025
**_Oppressed apes seek freedom in a Schutzstaffel-patterned police state_** Twenty years after the deaths of Cornelius & Zira, their child (Roddy McDowall) has been raised by a circus owner in secret (Ricardo Montalbán). Meanwhile society has devolved into Nazi-like authoritarianism in which chimpanzees, orangutangs and gorillas are viewed as pets at best and, worse, trained servants. Don Murray, Hari Rhodes and S…
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