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The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes (1980) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1980 · 95 mins · English
- Directed by
- Bernard McEveety, Don McDougall
- Starring
- Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Phillips, Roddy McDowall, Marc Singer, William Smith, James Naughton
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp Galen, become entangled in brutal gladiatorial contests overseen by prefect Tolar on a post‑human planet. After evading gorilla police, they discover an abandoned research facility and a computer archive holding records of the former human‑ruled world. The telefilm combines the 1974 TV episodes “The Gladiators” and “The Legacy.”
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