Monday, July 14, 2014

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (1973) International Posters

I can't imagine why, but I've had the Planet Of The Apes franchise - and specifically, 1973's Battle For The Planet Of The Apes - on my mind the last few days. Anyway, that prompted me to dig up this selection of Battle one-sheets from around this planet. They pretty much all feature the same basic image... but there are some interesting variations. Enjoy -- and have a great week!


UPDATE 8/21/14: And here's the gorgeous Japanese one-sheet:

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11 comments:

  1. Britt ReidJuly 14, 2014 at 1:10 PM

    You' ve probably been thinking about Battle, because many of the plot aspects of Dawn are similar to the earlier film.

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  2. SaturdayMorningFanJuly 14, 2014 at 1:31 PM

    I love the Italian(?) poster! Italian sunglasses on the human victim, and a rocketship and flying saucer - did the artist even see the film? Seems like they weren't even vaguely aware of what the whole franchise was about.

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  3. James M. TateJuly 14, 2014 at 1:34 PM

    yeah, DAWN is BATTLE and RISE was CONQUEST... they wish. but I love these posters. that bad ape carrying the human had a man inside named Claude Akins who I played golf with as a kid. long story. anyhow this is a great movie. a portion of it was shown in ARGO, giving Affleck's character the idea to make a fake movie.

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  4. shintokamikazeJuly 15, 2014 at 7:17 AM

    The second poster is crazy, nothing got to do with the movie, but I still love it, I want it on my wall

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  5. SteveJuly 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM

    "Battle" is still one of my favorites in the series. Even though it looks like it was filmed on a TV budget, it's still a great movie. It's the movie that brings the series full-circle with the mutants and the Alpha-Omega bomb. The cast was pretty good too -- I really liked Paul Williams as Virgil. And having John Houston bookend the show with this lawgiver role was really cool.

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  6. Ted HarringtonJuly 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM

    I have the Roddy McDowall "Caesar" head Ultimate DVD Collection and pull out the DVD's every few months and watch the original movie series, television series and then the cartoon series over a rainy weekend. I do not watch the Burton 2001 movie at all.

    My wife and I love watching Battle but Conquest and Battle still scare the heck out of me today. Must be due to the fact that my uncle took me to the drive-in to see the Double Feature back in 1973 and I was only 6 years-old. Something about a 40-foot gorilla on a screen trying to kill humans kind of scarred me for life.

    Just curious which do you enjoy more, the extended television cut that runs 96 minutes or the 86-minute version that was shown in theaters during the summer of 1973.

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  7. AnonymousJuly 19, 2014 at 10:02 PM

    Personally, I prefer the extended version (which I didn't seen until a few years ago). I wish I had been able to see any of the apes movies in the theater, but unfortunately I was born in 1975. So, I was too young which is hard for me to believe at times, because the Apes movies, cartoons and television series were staples of my childhood. I never had them on beta or VHS, but they were constantly on television back in the 70s and early 80s. So much so that I actually thought that the re-edited 2 hour long versions of the television series were the first movies and the Charlton Heston versions were the sequels. The extended episodes aired on Fox movie channel around 6 years ago and I DVR'd them and added them to my "Apes" collection. I even (thanks to this site) added in the Galen commentary that was done for their original television broadcasts. The original Apes was/is some great stuff! They can remake them forever, but they won't be as good- no matter how hard they try.

    Gotta love the UFO! Where did that come from! Maybe the same guy who drew the "Yor The Hunter From The Future" posters drew these. Those posters had almost nothing to do with the film either.

    Dang! Yor and the Planet of The Apes in on post! They just don't make great Sci-Fi like they use to! Apes being GREAT and Yor being GREAT, but so awesomely bad it made itself great!

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  8. kissapesJanuary 8, 2015 at 11:45 PM

    The one on top is the centerpiece of the way I display my collection. It was a gift from a close friend. This is a great post!

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  9. NobileFebruary 24, 2015 at 11:07 AM

    Gosh, yes, that dreadful (or wonderful, depending on your view) second poster is Italian. I assume that the franchise, especially the post-Heston movies, had little luck in Italy, so the distribution probably removed all Planet of the Apes references and added fancy spaceships in order to lure viewers. They did something similar later with the Star Trek franchise, removing "Star Trek" from the titles in films IV to VIII, which bombed nevertheless. I can imagine how pleased the viewers were, expecting a low budget space-flick and being tricked into watching a political post apocalyptic battle movie. The movie, of course, flopped just as much.

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