Planet of the Apes '68 

Smoking in space , those were the days

I love how in the 60’s, our best understanding of futuristic space travel was like smoking in a sound booth while sitting in executive-style leather chairs.

What a shock he will find when he comes to understand that he has returned to Earth ....and everyone has gone completely non-smoking!

Charlton Heston can make a grocery list sound epic, but this was still a beautifully written monolog.

I saw this as a young boy, and it changed my perspective of the world completely. Still one of my top five movies of all time. Charlton Heston was amazing, but the supporting cast was stellar also.

Rod Serling knew how to write!

Best intro to any movie, met Charlton Heston and his wife before he passed, men like him are rare today.

Perhaps my favorite monologue in movie history. I love everything about it. Heston was perfect here.

So much of Rod Serling comes through in this film. Without him I think there wouldn't have been such great content.

Let’s all praise Pierre Boulle who wrote the book this film was based around as well as Bridge Over The River Kwai.

"One more thing, if anybody is listening, that is. Nothing scientific, it's purely personal. Seen from out here, everything seems different. Time bends. Space is... boundless. It squashes a man's ego. I feel lonely."

Movies of that era have a ominous quality to them that can’t be replicated with today’s garbage.

What a set up for the entire movie - "Does man still make war on his brother?"

Deep thinking astronaut. Even as a kid, this hit the viscera, especially seeing that high tech spacecraft crash in such primitive surrounds. Amazing movie.

One of the most engaging and memorable openings in movie History. Yet what director today would dare to suggest lets start with a quiet opening, no music, just a guy murmering his thoughts in a subdued monologue... Really...Who? Compelling things to say have been replaced with noise, explosions, loud music, Screams of 'Go, go go..' and VFX....al wrapper...no chocolate bar...

Love Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, and Soylent Green. Just great movies. Big budgets, top actors, and crew. Well-written stories. I enjoyed going to the movies for the Saturday matinee when I was younger. It was such an adventure. It was less than a dollar like 50 or 75 cents. Soda and popcorn wasn't that much either.

One of Heston's best scenes of his career! Very interesting visuals and verbiage! Long live the Heston!

You'd think space ships from the 60s would have ash trays?

Taylor had such contempt for his fellow Man. Can't say I blame him..

Smoking on a spaceship.. gotta love the 60's...

I just realized in this specific excerpt Taylor (Heston) mentions Dr. Heslein's theory of time travel, which came later in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. As the original movie was released in '68 it is clear the producers already had sequels planned ahead from the very beginning. I'm glad the new 21st century Apes' movie series is making the 'circle of time' complete. Starting between the original 'Escape...' and 'Conquest...' then moving into the years after 'Battle...'. For me I'm curious to know how the 'circle' will join the original movie timeline.

Great movie. So much better than the newer remakes.

What an absolute classic film the original Apes film was. Infinitely superior to the recent updates. Charlton Heston never better.

Great monologue, and sadly man still makes war upon his brother! I wonder if anything in mankind’s future history, if there is one, will ever change. Superb movie and as always Charlton Heston is superb.

They smoked everywhere back in the day, hospitals, movie theaters and space capsules!

Whenever I watch anything Planet of the Apes, I am always reminded of the huge blooper in the second film. The "Alpha-Omega" superbomb. Taylor states it is a doomsday bomb, with a cobalt casing, thus giving it the power to destroy the planet. This is where the science shoots this down. When built, such a bomb may have had that power. But over 2000 years into the future it's power would have only been what the plutonium core could do. Why? Cobalt's half life is 5.27 years. So, after 2000 years, the cobalt would be totally inert. Nothing but lead. Still, made for a great fun flick.

"While we've aged hardly at all." Then sucks on his Cigar. LOL

This is one of my favorite movies. I wish they’d show this one on tv every now and then. I hate the new versions of this movie

The writing and dialogue in this movie, a solid SyFy social commentary movie, absolutely blows away anything from the last 10 years. Pathetic how far Hollywood, and audiences, have fallen.

I miss having Charlton Heston around. What a guy. Kind of like an Ace Rimmer - except real.

I like how he's smoking a cigar in a space ship with a controlled oxygen environment.

He doesn't have an ashtray...

One of the coolest looking space ships ever built.

What an eternally magnificent actor. He even infused Wayne's World with dignity!

Only Charlton Heston could get away with smoking a Cigar on a highly flammable spacecraft. Perhaps Clint Eastwood too.

I remember the Marvel comics adaptation of this had him wonder if The Beatles ever got back together again.

Watched this at a drive-in theatre...munching popcorn and drink. It really was a wild movie.

Incredible to think this movie came out 1 year before Man stepped on the moon for the very first time...

Such a cruel irony. We can travel the stars, right now even, as long as we're willing to leave Earth behind forever. Everything you know, everything you love, will all be gone by the time you get back. Then, there's contamination to alien ecosystems just by stepping foot on the planet, the radiation in interstellar space....I grew up watching Star Trek, believing we were meant to be out there, but the more I learned about it, the reality seems to say the exact opposite.

How weird that I watched this on March 24 the same date on the ship's computer.

Charlton Heston delievering Rod Sterlings Dialogue *Chefs Kiss*

I love it Moses having a smoke in space

Back in 72 this spaceship looked so futuristic. Now it’s funny to see an entire console that does nothing more than keep track of Earth time compared to ship time! In today’s world that display would be less an 2 square inches.

Stoggy +pure O2 environment = no Bueno!

Rod Serling, creator and writer of The Twilight Zone wrote this screenplay. He was also Jewish and fought in WW2.

He rests his Havana cigar on the dashboard corner, the padding catches fire, ship is destroyed, the crew dies, end of the mission.

The first half/1 hour was better than the second half

If you send someone on a mission and 700 years passes, isn't it likely that other missions would be sent? Wouldn't they pass or intercept this one?

The movies in the 60s and 70s were fantastic!!!

They really did a great job capturing the lonliness and isolation of being up all by yourself in the middle of space...its very contemplative...this and the eerie, ambient opening credits music that follows shortly afterwards...really sets the tone of the film all the way to the shocking ending...

In my top 5 of all time...

He says the ship is on auto so of course he will land back in Manhattan

宇宙船の操縦席で葉巻を吸って、その吸いかけをコンソールにいったん置くってのが、ってのがもの凄く良いです！！シュールだあ！ 猿の惑星大好きです！！

One of the greatest SciFi ever !..

How rare it must have been to see a 7 segment digital display back in 1968 given quartz digital clocks and watches wouldn't be around yet for a few more years

Great monolog. Heston is so good here. I'm not sure if this was written by Rod Serling, Michael Wilson, or in Pierre Boulle's original book, but it's terrific. Credit to all three (plus Heston, and director Franklin Schaffner).

My Mom took me to see this movie, I was only 6 years old, we were at drive in movie theater, for many days after seeing this movie I could not sleep.

Love that he's smoking a cigar and then haphazardly puts it right next to flammable sound proofing foam that was installed wall to wall throughout the entire cockpit. I guess NASA didn't have in their budget to install an ash tray.

You just cant have real scifi/horror/dystopia movies without charlton heston

I love how they had the Hasselein Curve was planned from the beginning.

Little does Taylor know Dr. Zaius knows the answer to his question

Always the best. Thankfully the remakes 2010- 2017 trilogy wasn’t bad. It was a good explanation how humans are no longer able to talk and how they died

What a great movie

Smoking in an all-oxygen atmosphere. Ahh, the 60's, and 70's.

I saw this movie in the early 70s and the shock scared the crap out me.... it still gives me chills to these days to think that somewhere, someone may be experimenting to apes genes and someday a talking more intelligent ape will rise.....

Props to the writers for getting spacial relativity/time dilation correct, I feel most sci-fi movies of the period wouldn't have cared to show that.

Film made back in the day when you could smoke on an airline.

This movie, like Forbidden Planet, and The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, all are hallmarks of how Hollywood can produce seminal and enduring relevant "sci-fi" motion pictures ....

Best austronaut outfits of any sci-fi movie.

Lucky guy totally missed COVID

Great movie….even today

When I first saw this on TV I missed the first twenty minutes and was really confused by the ending.

Love the Cigar Smoking on a Spacecraft

This scene seems so soothing.

Love the way he's puffing away on a cigar, then casually wedges it between the console and the fuselage, whilst he shoots up and completes his monologue :D I suppose if his cigar caught the ship on fire in would have cut the film a little short! :D Amazing movie though. They don't make them like this anymore. The remake was largely terrible, apart from Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Roth. The newer films were good, as they told a different story. The story of what was happening on Earth as Charlton Heston and his crew were traveling through space and time to their eventual destiny.

I first saw this movie in 1990 when I was a teenager, and immediately got a crush on the woman he found.

It is the blue drapes matching those lapels

Those chairs looking hella compfy

I am not extremely fond of Planet of the Apes, but the start and the end are very good. What happens between is just boring adventure, dominant apes against humans. The start was good because of the strangeness of the relativistic flight and the epic crash. Also the first contact with the planet, looming entities, unknown planet and danger… The end showing the statue of liberty, I didn’t see that coming.

You think NASA scolded him for putting that lit cigarette on the dashboard.? Amazing movie and the message behind this is ominous and accurate.

Heston junkie act is very smooth.

The ship probably had some cool ashtrays

Wow, the video stops right before the AWESOME power of Jerry Goldsmith. Forshame, forshame..

What's with that giant light show outside. Doesn't look lonely out there, looks like very busy

In 5 short years, space travel would be mastered and spaceships would look like they took only days to construct. Yeah right!

I have the entire boxed set of that era of the franchise and it features a fascinating documentary narrated by Roddy McDowell. The first film had quite a budget but unfortunately in each subsequent film the budgets were slashed. Dr Zaius, the main ‘elder’ was originally meant to played by Hollywood gangster legend Edward G Robinson and he did the screen test. Unfortunately, he hated the ape mask he would have to wear and declined. The prosthetic masks had to be fitted in the morning and the actors had to keep them on all day even during meal times. This led to an interesting sociological observation. During meal breaks the actors and extras would sit together and it was noted that quite naturally the various ‘ape’ groups would naturally gravitate, without prompting, towards each other. so the gorillas would sit at one table, chimps at another and orangutans at a separate one.

The ship has a hypersonic design, looks really close to what the airforce is deploying today.

Smoking even then on a space ship was a pretty dumb prop ... LOL

in 1968 you can smoke on the space ship and put your cigar on the control panel lit....no problems.

I like how much room there is in the space ship!

"I leave the 20th century with no regrets." -Colonel George Taylor- Phillp J. Fry

I have seen this movie so many times however don't remember this scene.

Three men and one women in space. They draw straws to see who gets lucky first. 😂😂

No ashtrays or cup holders.

I remember seeing this on television, as a young kid back in the 1980s at my grandparents house, and it’s been one of my favorite movies ever since. Something about this opening fascinates me.

Gotta love the lawn chairs… kinda like flying into Compton, or NYC these days… same sht.

That was actually a pretty small ship for 4 astronauts

This ship's design is something else. It is capable of near luminal speeds, yet, it is so small, it fits on a 40th tractor-trailer as we see in the 3rd movie. Its mission profile is unclear. Taylor's log vaguely suggest it is some kind of colonization attempt? though that could have been an attempt at humor. Exactly why they would send 1 woman and 3 men with few supplies or tools or means of providing life support if they encounter hostile environment is also unclear. They know about time dilation, so, why send 4 people that cant establish any kind of colony where they would be temporally disconnected from Earth besides. Icarus is also noteworthy in that its sleep pods have no biometric monitors so when Stewarts chamber malfunctions, neither she or any of the other crew are awakened automatically. Taylor smokes a cigar which is a very 70's thing to do in a sealed spaceship. In addition, the crew do not get along with each other all that well overall, which means they all basically failed the pysch test and never should have been sent into Low Earth Orbit together, let alone Alpha Centauri.

My favourite childhood movie

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