In voice-over, she spoke: "It didn""t go on forever, I knew it was leading somewhere.And hat, at the end, it would show me what I came to see....Let me see them.My parents, please." She beseeched the Force to show her parents in the cloudy wall""s reflection, but failed to see anything but herself.When the hatch was opened, three white space-suited astronauts emerged.When they removed their helmets, General Winthrop (Harry Lauter) in charge was astonished by the sight of three apes: archaeologist Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and his wife, vet and animal psychologist Zira (Kim Hunter), and their ""genius"" colleague Milo (Sal Mineo).Three months after the explosions rocked Gotham City, Special Forces snuck in, posing as relief workers providing assistance to the self-destructing city.As a high school junior, Spielberg""s first feature film, shot in 8 mm, wasFirelight (1964)- the inspirational precursor o this film, about a town terrorized by UFOs.One of the cabbies has seen it all - the philosophic Wizard (Peter Boyle) relates a exaggerated anecdote about one of his odd fare-paying passengers, a seductive lady who changed her pantyhose in the middle of a ride:.