Top cast:Florence Lawrence,Charles Inslee,Arthur V. Johnson
Director:George P. Cosmatos&Kevin Jarre
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Germany
Year:2016
Storyline:Put simply, world destruction is an unpleasant, but necessary part of evolution.What happens then, I wondered, when mankind faces the next end of the world.I looked to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, thriving cities rebuilt from the ashes, monuments to he unimaginable, dedicated to the concept of peace...trampling everything in his path - men, women and morals!It""s TENSE...it""s TOUGH...it""s TERRIFIC...It""s a BOX-OFFICE ACE!!!!!There were two real-life events that served as historical precedents for the film""s central plot - the exploitative stage-management of an "ace in the hole" media-frenzied story at the site of a tragedy.The explosion kills the American businessman and his girlfriend, burning them in the wreckage.The Vargas"" have accidentally become witnesses at the scene of a disturbing crime.Vargas tells Susan hat they will have to postpone the chocolate soda:Vargas: This could be very bad for us.At the front of the pack of animals, Caesar ordered a three-pronged attack:Koba and other chimps would "go up" and attack from the high-wire supportsMaurice and other orangutans would "get under" and attack from the lower supportsCaesar, Buck, and Rocket would charge straight ahead along the roadThe apes had the advantage of fog blocking them from clear view.It was the 16th highest-grossing (domestic) film of its year, 1979 (the #1 film wasKramer vs.Kramer (1979)).It was thethirdmost-commercially successful film of Allen""s entire career, grossing $39.9 million (domestic), just behindMidnight in Paris (2011)at $56.8 million (domestic), andHannah and Her Sisters (1986)at $40 million (domestic).If adjusted for inflation, it was Allen""ssecond-highest grossing film at $145.8 million, just behindAnnie Hall (1977)at $157.1 million.It was Allen""s first 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen (or Cinemascopic) release; it was specified that it would only be released in its original "letter-boxed" format (rather than pan-and-scan) for early TV broadcasts and video versions.