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Released
1973 · FILM

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Caesar, the visionary ape leader, fights to forge a fragile peace between his kind and surviving humans, even as a power‑hungry gorilla general and a hostile underground mutant faction threaten to ignite all‑out war.

“The final chapter in the incredible Apes saga. The most suspenseful showdown ever filmed as two civilizations battle for the right to inherit what's left of the earth!”

Directed by
J Lee Thompson
Written by
John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
93 min
ActionSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

The fifth and final film in the Planet of the Apes series follows the aftermath of human civilization's collapse, as a society of intelligent apes, led by Caesar, coexists with a group of humans. Tensions rise when Gorilla General Aldo attempts to incite an ape civil war, while a subterranean community of human mutants seeks to conquer those they view as adversaries. The events culminate in a dramatic finale.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John C HorgerShot by Richard H KlineScored by Leonard Rosenman

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.8M

Budget$1.7M
Worldwide gross$8.8M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Die Schlacht um den Planet der Affende
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apesen
  • La batalla por el planeta de los simioses
  • La Bataille de la planète des singesfr
  • Anno 2670 - Ultimo attoit

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