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Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 20, 1980

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

TV Movie, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

User Score

70%

Original Title

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

Production Companies

20th Century Fox Television

Director

Alf Kjellin

Description

When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"]