Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

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Come, come.

- Are you authorized to dress him like that?

- Oh, yes, sir.

- A circus ape, huh?

- The only one to have been trained

as a bareback rider

in the entire history of the circus.

- Circuses are past history.

- Not while I live and breathe.

- All right, Seor Armando. Go ahead.

- Thank you.

Come, come.

Come, come.

- Did I do all right?

- Yes, yes, yes.

But try to walk a little more

like a primitive chimpanzee.

Your arms should move

up and down from the shoulder... like so.

Yes, that's better.

After 20 years, you've picked up

evolved habits from me.

That could be dangerous. Even fatal.

- Armando, I don't understand.

- Listen to me, Caesar.

There can be only

one talking chimpanzee on Earth.

The child of the two talking apes,

Cornelius and Zira,

who came to us years ago out of the future

and were murdered for fear that one distant

day apes might dominate the human race.

Yeah, but outside of you,

nobody even knows I exist.

And we must keep it that way,

for the fear remains.

The mere fact of your existence would be

regarded as a great threat to mankind.

Come. Come.

Attention, this is the watch commander.

Disperse apes gathering in the mall.

Repeat:
disperse apes gathering in the mall.

Take the serial number of each offender

and notify Ape Control immediately.

Repeat:
take the serial number

of each offender

and notify Ape Control immediately.

Their masters are to be cited and fined.

Repeat:
their masters

are to be cited and fined.

Attention. Attention.

This is the watch commander.

Attention. Attention. Disperse unauthorized

ape gathering at the foot of ramp six.

Repeat:
disperse unauthorized

ape gathering at the foot of ramp six.

No citation or fine in this instance.

Repeat:
no citation or fine in this...

But how did it happen?

Go! Go!

No! No!

Go! You go!

- But you said humans treated apes like pets.

- They did, in the beginning.

They've made slaves of them!

They all died within a few months,

eight years ago.

Every dog and cat in the world.

It was like a plague.

The disease that killed them was a virus

brought back from space by an astronaut.

- Didn't the disease affect humans?

- We were immune.

And so, it was discovered, were simians,

even the smallest ones.

That's how it began.

Humans wanting little household pets

to replace the ones they had lost.

Then, when people realized how quick

they were to learn, how easy to train,

the pets became larger,

and larger, until now...

It's monstrous.

Now you understand why I've kept you away.

Yes, Lisa.

A Young Queen Falls for Mrs Riley.

No!

Lisa.

Yes?

Could you possibly be so kind

as to display it in your window?

- When I have the time.

- Thank you.

The labor demonstration on the South Plaza

will be terminated in ten minutes.

Repeat:
the labor demonstration

on the South Plaza

will be terminated in ten minutes.

Thank you, Frank.

Funny. Now that I know they

won't kill me, I don't enjoy them.

Well, for heaven's sakes! A circus!

Home, Lisa.

- Yes?

- Oh, I was wondering,

would you be kind enough

to display a couple of these posters?

- Stop it!

- No, Zelda! No!

Home, Zelda.

I'm so sorry, Mrs Riley. I'll have

someone to comb you out in a minute.

I wanna be combed out now.

I have a luncheon.

- Thursday, then.

- Thursday.

I... I forgot the waiter

and I'm all out of raisins.

- Take mine.

- Thank you.

You're overtipping.

No! No! No!

And I told them to condition him to fire.

Attention. The labor demonstration

on the South Plaza

will be terminated in five minutes.

Repeat:
the labor demonstration on the

South Plaza will be terminated in five minutes.

Failure to comply with this order can result

in a one-year suspension

of your right to bargain collectively.

- What's his job?

- He's a messenger.

For the governor, so get!

No! No! No!

- Stop that at once! All of you!

- Yes, sir, Mr MacDonald. We were just...

I saw what you were doing. Now sedate

the animal and get him out of here.

- Who the hell's that?

- The governor's number-one assistant.

- He love apes or something?

- Don't it figure?

Hold him.

Lousy human bastards!

Who said that?

I did.

He's a performing ape for my circus.

- A talking ape?

- No! No, no.

- No, that's impossible. It was I who spoke.

- It didn't sound like your voice.

Yell ''Lousy human bastards.''

- That's not what I said.

- That's what I heard.

Now, look, mister,

you yell ''Lousy human bastards.''

- Lousy human bastards.

- We said yell!

Lousy human bastards!

- Yeah, yeah. Could be.

- I don't think so.

- It's right. The ape spoke.

- Yeah!

No! No, they're mistaken.

I admit my behavior was inexcusable

and I am deeply sorry.

I think we better take him

to headquarters for interrogation.

Guard!

Move him on.

- Armando, forgive me.

- Oh, no, no.

You only said aloud what I was thinking.

I'm sorry. I was so angry.

I might have bluffed it through

if you hadn't run away.

Now they suspect you

of understanding all that was said.

- Armando, let's go back to the circus.

- No, no, no.

- Oh, no, please.

- No, that's the first place they'll look.

Here's what we'll do. I'll go to the police.

- Oh, no, no!

- It's the only way!

I'll say that... that I couldn't find you.

That... you've run away before.

- That big cities frighten you.

- But, Armando, where would I go?

You wait right here!

If this works, I'll be back by nightfall.

- But what if they don't let you go?

- Oh, they will. They will.

But just in case, if I am not back by then...

Now, these steps go down

to a tunnel that leads to the harbor.

Cargoes of apes are frequently

unloaded at night.

- You must try to infiltrate one of them.

- But, Armando...

Apes imported from overseas arrive naked,

so you'll have to get rid of these clothes.

- Well, I don't want to.

- We must have an alternate plan!

Right now, the only safe

hiding place for you

is among your own kind.

I shouldn't be long.

Why would you say ''human''?

''Human.'' That's a very odd thing

for another human being to say.

I didn't say ''human,'' Mr Governor.

I said ''inhuman.''

Lousy inhuman bastards. And by the blessed

St Francis, who loved all animals, I meant it.

- You see, I run a circus...

- We know that.

- From 20 years back.

- Since the talking apes arrived on Earth

and conceived a baby whose survival could

have threatened the future of the human race.

Mr Governor, I understand

the baby was shot dead with its parents.

Or so it was believed, Mr MacDonald.

However, since this morning, I'm beginning

to wonder if they shot the right baby.

The apes could have switched

their baby with one from the zoo.

- Or perhaps a circus.

- Surely, Mr Governor, you can't be serious!

Hoskyns, the cassette, please.

These are the recommendations made to

the then president of the United States

by the chairman

of the Presidential Committee.

And we believe that the male and female

talking apes, Cornelius and Zira,

have come to us out of the future.

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