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Le Point de mire (1977)

From Story ("Le Photographe")

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Planet of the Apes (2001)

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Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Hell With The Scarecrows

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Human See Human Do

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Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Le Point de mire (1977)

From Story ("Le Photographe")

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Characters As Source Material

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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Planet of the Apes (2001)

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Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Hell With The Scarecrows Hot on the trail of vegetation they found on what appeared to be a desolate planet, astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner) and Dodge (Jeff Burton) haven’t noticed the figures tracking them on the cliffs, trouble ensuing, early in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Human See Human Do Injured and now a captive, human Taylor (Charlton Heston), still unable to speak, has made more progress with ape scientist Zira (Kim Hunter) than with minder Julius (Buck Kartalian), but none with her boss Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans), introduced here, in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) How Do You Account For Me? Animal psychologist (and Chimpanzee) Zira (Kim Hunter) has proven that human Taylor (Charlton Heston), still unable to speak because of his throat injury, can communicate, though her colleague and boyfriend Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) isn't convinced by his story, in Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Be Running This Planet 20th century Earth astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner) and Dodge (Jeff Burton), unsure of there whereabouts, observe primitive humans who stole their clothes, and surprised when apes (led by Norman Burton) appear, early in the original Planet Of The Apes, 1968.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) He's Done It! Triumphal moment from director David Lean, as Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinnes) is summoned from "The Oven" by Japanese prison-camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), who agrees to exempt British officers from manual labor, in The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Colonel Bogey March The British prisoners led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) enter the Japanese prison camp in Burma whistling the jaunty Colonel Bogey March, in a famous early moment from David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) It Will Be Pleasant Work Japanese prison camp commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) addressing just-arrived British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) and his troops, seeds of conflict in David Lean's The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They Might All Run Away We meet American prisoner Commander Shears (William Holden) and a fellow grave-digger (Harold Goodwin) schmoozing Lt. Miura (Keiichio Katsumoto) for sick-list time, before the Brits arrive at the Japanes prison camp in occupied Burma, in The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.

Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Is It The Sun? One of the momentous cuts for which director David Lean is known, British and Japanese officers Clipton and Miura (James Donald, Keiichiro Katsumoto) lament the conflict between their superiors, then the climax of the escape attempt by American prisoner Shears (William Holden), in The Bridge on the River Kwai, (1957).

Planet Of The Apes (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I Leave The 20th Century Expository prologue before credits from director Franklin J. Schaffner, Taylor (Charlton Heston) ruminating and hitting the sack, crew Robert Gunner and Jeff Burton already snoozing, in the original Planet Of The Apes, 1968, co-starring Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall.

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Not A Crackle After opening with the almost-exact ending of the original, the sequel proceeds with another American astronaut, Brent (James Franciscus), and his skipper (Tod Andrews) deducing that they’ve crashed on the same planet Taylor (Charlton Heston) found, in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, 1970.

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Milk Of Kindness Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (David Watson) flip when native human Nova (Linda Harrison) delivers just-arrived astronaut Brent (James Franciscus), who's rather like Charlton Heston from the original, boss Zaius (Maurice Evans) joining, in the sequel Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, 1970.

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