Guard!
Stop!
You'll hurt him!
Take him inside.
Cornelius! Cornelius, if you have a moment today,
I'd like to discuss this expedition ofyours in more detail.
Certainly, sir. I'll pick up my notes and l'll come right over.
I don't understand these animal psychologists.
What's Dr Zira trying to prove?
That man can be domesticated.
- What happened? - Oh, those fools and their torches.
- Do you have any ointment? - I'll see.
I'm sorry, Bright Eyes.
Julius!
I told you what you'd get!
Julius, don't, don't, don't!
It doesn't matter!
Julius, don't hurt him!
Julius!
Natural-born thieves, aren't they?
Get me a collar and leash.
- I'm taking him out of here. - He's vicious, doctor.
- Besides, it's against the rules. - Do as l say!
You... you wouldn't hurt me, would you,
Taylor?
It's a stunt.
Humans can't write.
Dear, you're a scientist.
Don't you believe your own eyes?
Where did you learn to do this?
"Jefferson
Public School."
"Fort Wayne,
Indiana."
Back on that planet you say you came from?
Maybe he is intelligent.
But he is also... crazy.
Cornelius.
Cornelius, please.
"Dodge was killed in the hunt."
"What happened to... Landon?"
I don't know.
They fell out ofthe sky with you?
"Not fell. Flew."
Flight is a scientific impossibility.
And even if it weren't, why fly?
Where would it get you?
"Do you have maps?"
We're here. You were captured here.
You fell into the water here?
You came ashore...
Marched across the desert?
Mountains?
Many days and nights.
And reached the jungle.
Out ofthe question.
Cornelius, why do you insist on provoking him?
No creature can survive in the forbidden zone. I know. I've been there. I've seen it.
"Then how do you account for me?"
I don't.
And l'm not going to try.
But what about your theory?
The existence of someone like Taylor might prove it.
Do you want to get my head chopped off?
Don't be foolish. If it's true, they'll have to accept it.
No, they won't.
Cornelius has developed the most brilliant hypothesis.
But l'm probably wrong.
That the ape evolved from a lower order of primate,
possibly man.
In his trip to the forbidden zone,
he discovered traces of a culture older than recorded time.
- The evidence was very meagre. - You didn't think so then.
That was before Dr Zaius and half of the Academy said my idea was heresy.
How can scientific truth be heresy?
What if Taylor is exactly the proofyou needed?
A mutation.
A missing link between the unevolved primate
and the ape.
Touchy, isn't he?
"l am not a missing link."
Well, if he were a missing link, the sacred scrolls wouldn't be worth their parchment.
Well, maybe they're not.
Oh, no, thank you. I'm not going to get into that battle.
- Cornelius, show some strength! - Zira, listen to me!
Now, we both have fine futures.
Marriage, stimulating careers.
I'm up for a raise.
Dr Zaius.
Did you forget our appointment, Cornelius?
No, sir. I was just collecting my notes.
You know Dr Maximus, of course. Our commissioner for animal affairs.
Yes, sir. It's a pleasure to see you again.
What is that?
A man, Dr Maximus.
I know it's a man. And you know the rules.
No animals allowed outside the compound, and most especially not without a leash.
Yes, sir, but... but this
creature is a special case.
Why special?
We're conducting a new experiment.
Wouldn't that more properly be done in your office?
Yes, sir.
Guards, return this beast to the compound.
What is this?
A toy.
It floats on the air.
Zira...
Try it.
Nonsense.
- What's up, lieutenant? - We're taking number four to surgery.
- Have him ready. - How come?
- The beast's throat's nearly healed. - The vet's going to geld him.
Dr Zira won't like it. She wants that pair to mate.
These orders come from Dr Zaius himself. There's nothing she can do about it.
If only you knew what they're going to do.
Stay still now. Don't give me any trouble.
Weep ifyou must, but make an end of sorrow.
He lives again.
Yes, he has found peace in heaven.
He was a model for us all, a gorilla to remember...
Hunter, warrior,
defender ofthe faith.
Cherished husband,
beloved father,
generous master, yes.
He was
a font of simian kindness.
The dear departed once said to me "l never met an ape l didn't like."
Look! lt's a man!
In heaven's name! Get rid ofthat creature!
Catch him!
Catch him! Catch him!
Come on, Quintus.
Then why is he called the accused?
Your Honours must think him guilty of something.
The creature's not being tried. He's being disposed of.
It is scientific heresy that is being tried here.
Well put, Dr Zaius.
Let us warn our friends
that they endanger their own careers by defending this animal.
Then l'll... defend myself.
Dr Zira, would you tell
Bright Eyes to be quiet?
- My name is Taylor! - Bailiff! Silence the animal!
Wait! Let me...
You may proceed, Mr Prosecutor.
Learned judges, my case is simple.
It is based on our first article offaith.
That the almighty created the ape in his own image.
That he gave him a soul and a mind.
That he set him apart from the beasts ofthe jungle and made him the lord ofthe planet.
These sacred truths are self-evident.
The proper study of apes is apes.
But certain young cynics have chosen to study man.
Yes! Perverted scientists who advance an insidious theory called evolution.
Come to the point, Dr Honorious.
The state charges that Dr Zira and a corrupt surgeon named Galen
experimented on this wounded animal,
tampering with his brain and throat tissues, to produce a speaking monster.
That's a lie!
Mind your tongue, madam.
Did we create his mind as well?
Not only can this man speak,
he can think! He can reason.
That can reason?
With the tribunal's permission, allow me to expose this hoax by direct examination.
Proceed, doctor. But do not turn this hearing into a farce.
Tell the court, Bright Eyes, what is the second article offaith?
I know nothing ofyour culture. I admit that.
Of course he doesn't know our culture, because he cannot think!
Tell us... Why are all apes created equal?
Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.
Ridiculous!
Tell us, Bright Eyes.
Why do men have no souls?
What is the proofthat a divine spark exists in the simian brain?
Read this for me.
Since the defendant has been forbidden to speak in his own defence,
he requests that the following statement
be read into the record.
You read it, Dr Cornelius. Read it.
"l have, uh, come to you from a planet in a different solar system."
"l am an explorer in space..."
Stop right there. Let me see that paper.
It's ajoke.
In very poor taste.
Is it ajoke to seek the truth about this man?
Dr Zira,
you state here that a ship from outer space sank in an inland sea of our eastern desert.
You state that Bright Eyes had two intelligent companions with him
at the time of his capture.
That is his assertion.
Mr President,
in addition to Bright Eyes, l believe the prosecutor has reassembled
all the surviving humans that were captured in the hunt.
That's true, Dr Zaius.
Very well.
Then l suggest that we... go take a look at 'em.
That's him! That's Landon!
- Which one? - The tall one in the back.
Do you acknowledge kinship with any ofthese creatures?
- With one ofthem, yes. - Identify him, then. Speak to him.
Landon?
Landon.
Oh! They cut him!
Did you know about this?
No. I... I swear. I never saw this man before.
But they...
You did it.
You cut up his brain, you bloody baboon!
Stop him!
Take him inside!
Mr President, a word of explanation.
The human specimen you saw outside
suffered a skull fracture in the course ofthe hunt.
Two fine veterinary surgeons under my direction were able to save his life.
But the beast could not speak, of course.
Nor will he ever speak.
You did that to him, damn you!
Cut out his memory, took his identity, and that's what you wanna do to me!
Bailiff! Gag the animal!
Damn you!
May it please the tribunal,
I grant you that this creature cannot have come from another planet.
But this much is certain. He does come from somewhere in the forbidden zone.
He's described the region to us and described it accurately for... I have been there.
You visited the forbidden zone?
Yes, sir.
A year ago. With the permission ofthe Academy.
He exceeded his orders. His travel permit was cancelled immediately.
Yes, sir. That is true, thanks to you.
But not before l discovered evidence
of a simian culture that existed long before the sacred scrolls were written.
Objection! These remarks are profane and irrelevant!
Sustained. Your archaeological theories have no bearing on the disposition ofthis creature.
Let them talk, Mr President. Let them talk.
Sirs, our theories have a bearing on his identity.
How so?
Let us assume, as common sense dictates,
that the prisoner's story is false.
But if he did not come from another planet,
then surely he sprang from our own.
Yes! Sprang! As an animal psychologist,
I have found no physiological defect to explain why humans are mute.
- Objection! - Sustained!
Their speech organs are adequate. The flaw lies not in anatomy, but in the brain.
- Objection! - Sustained!
Sustain all objections, but face the truth!
Yes! Behold this marvel!
This living paradox!
This missing link in an evolutionary chain!
Silence there!
You go too far.
I think an indictment is in order.
Yes, sir. The state charges Drs Zira and Cornelius with contempt ofthis tribunal,
malicious mischief, and scientific heresy.
It is so ordered.
This tribunal will examine the evidence and in due course render its verdict.
As to the proposed indictment and as to the disposition
of the deviate in question,
this hearing is adjourned.
Wait outside.
Well, the verdict is in.
At the moment, your two simian friends and sponsors are free on bail.
But they'll soon be brought to trial for heresy.
What about me?
Your case was preordained.
In a way, you did the state a service
because you made it possible for us to expose Zira and Cornelius.
Now the tribunal has placed you in my custody
for final disposition.
Do you realise what that means?
No.
Emasculation to begin with.
Then experimental surgery
on the speech centres - on the brain.
Eventually a kind of living death.
However,
I have it in my power to grant a reprieve.
That is why l summoned you here tonight.
Tell me who and what you really are and where you came from,
and no veterinary shall touch you.
I told you that at that hearing ofyours.
You lied!
Where is your tribe?
My tribe!
They live on another planet in another solar system.
Even in your lies, some truth slips through.
That mythical community you're supposed to come from - Fort Wayne.
- What about it? - A fort!
Unconsciously you chose a name that was belligerent.
Where were you nurtured?
Then... you don't believe that prosecutor's charge that l'm a monster created by Dr Zira?
Certainly not.
You're a mutant.
That's what Zira and Cornelius claim. You're talking heresy, doctor.
Of course!
Suppose l am a mutant. How can the appearance of one mutant
- send you into a panic? - Because you're not unique.
- There's the one you call Landon. - Oh. Then you admit that...
I admit that where there's one mutant, there's probably another and another.
A whole nest ofthem.
Where is your nest, Taylor?
Where are your women?
Thank you.
Thank you for calling me Taylor.
Dr Zaius,
I know who l am.
But who are you?
How in hell did this upside-down civilisation get started?
You may well call it upside down,
since you occupy its lowest level.
And deservedly so.
Our eastern desert has never been explored
because we've always assumed that life cannot exist there.
Taylor, save yourself!
Tell me, is there anotherjungle beyond the forbidden zone?
I don't know.
If you're trying to protect others ofyour kind, it'll cost you your identity.
I'm not protecting anyone.
This whole thing is insane! What have l done?
You are a menace.
A walking pestilence!
I do know who you are, Taylor.
I'll give you just six hours to make a full confession.
After that l shall use surgery to obtain one.
Guards!
All right. You can cut pieces out of me. You've got the power.
Return this creature to his cage.
But you do it out offear!
Remember that! Because you're afraid of me! What are you afraid of, doctor?
Are you Julius?
- Who are you? - I'm from the office of animal affairs.
That male is to be transferred to the zoo.
At this hour?
Who says so?
Don't they tell you anything?
The antivivisectionist society is up in arms.
They're gonna save this beast from those butchers in the lab.
If he can speak, he belongs in a public zoo, but what'll probably happen
is some money-mad grown-up'll put him in a circus, and we'll have to pay...
Stop making speeches and show me the order!
This order's no good.
It must be countersigned by Dr Zaius.
Grab him!
Who are you?
So you can talk!
I'm Dr Zira's nephew. This abduction was her idea.
You're not really going to the zoo.
That's our story if somebody stops us.
Get me out ofthis.
We've gotta move fast!
She comes along too.
- Zira doesn't want your female. - I want her.
If you insist, but l'm not taking any orders.
All right. Come on! Let's go!
- I told you not to bring the other one! - He wouldn't leave her.
Oh, all right. Come on!
- Here. Put this on. - Don't you have any clothes for me?
What do you expect? An ape's new suit?
- This stuff stinks! - Well, so do you. Like all men.
Taylor, remember,
all men look alike to most apes.
So put it on and keep quiet, and we mayjust get away with this. Hurry!
Cornelius!
How'd it go?
Come on!
Let me out ofthis!
Well, Taylor, we're all fugitives now.
Do you have any weapons? Any guns?
The best. But we won't need them.
I'm glad to hear it. I want one anyway.
Taylor, l'm in charge ofthis expedition!
Good for you. But you're not in charge of me. Not any more.
I don't plan to be caught again.
- As you wish. - Dr Zaius seemed to think there was
another jungle beyond the forbidden zone.
I'll try for that. What about you?
Cornelius and l have been indicted for heresy.
Unless we can prove our theories, we don't stand a chance of acquittal.
You're going back to the forbidden zone?
We're going back to the diggings l worked at over a year ago.
It's a three-day ride across the desert.
Near where you claim you landed from that planet ofyours.
- You still don't believe me, do you? - It's a long detour to Dead Lake.
- What would we find? - Nothing much.
An empty rubber life raft. Maybe a... Iittle flag, the emblem of my countrymen.
The terrain around that lake
is poisonous. There's no fresh water, no vegetation - nothing.
Anyway, l... ought to thank you for saving me. You'll be in trouble for that.
We've been in trouble since the moment we met you.
What's she pointing at?
This must be close to home for her. She knows it.
Nova, no. Nova!
Nova, you can't go there! lt's not safe! Nova!
We'd better get started. Ifthe mounted police pick up our trail, they'll come this far.
Right. Let's get the water and provisions into the wagon.
Cornelius!
Where does this river lead to?
It flows into a sea some miles from here. That's where we'll find the diggings.
And beyond that?
I don't know. You can't ride along the shore at high tide
and we had no boats on our last expedition.
You never told me - why do you call this the forbidden zone?
No one knows. It's an ancient taboo, set forth in the sacred scrolls.
The lawgiver pronounced this whole area deadly.
Shouldn't we be moving on?
I'm for that.
Well? Do you like it?
Why did you do that? Scrape offyour hair?
In my world, when l left it, only kids your age wore beards.
Beards?
I don't go in for fads.
Somehow
it makes you look less intelligent.
When will you show me what's in that cave?
Right now, ifyou like.
Cornelius!
- Lucius, don't fire at them! - You're all under arrest!
If there's any more shooting, Dr Zaius, you'll be the first to go. You can count on it.
You are not in command. Put down that gun.
Shut up!
Very well.
Lower your weapons.
Tell them to pull back around the rocks, out of range.
Withdraw!
How did you know we'd come here?
It wasn't difficult. Only an apostate would flee to the forbidden zone.
And only a fool would give a gun to an animal.
I see you've brought the female ofyour species.
I didn't realise that man could be monogamous.
On this planet it's easy.
I'll ask you to reconsider the rash course you've undertaken.
If you're convicted of heresy, the most you'll get is two years, but
if you persist in pointing guns in my direction, you'll hang for high treason.
We never meant to be treasonous, sir.
But up there, in the face ofthat cliff, there is a vast cave,
and in that cave a fabulous treasure of fossils and artefacts.
I've seen some ofyour fossils and artefacts. They're worthless.
There's your minister of science.
Honour-bound to expand the frontiers of knowledge.
- Taylor, please! - Except he's also chief defender ofthe faith.
There is no contradiction between faith and science - true science.
- Are you willing to put it to the test? - Taylor, l would rather...
Take it easy. You saved me from this fanatic. Maybe l can return the favour.
What is your proposal?
When were those sacred scrolls of yours written?
1,200 years ago.
All right. Ifthey can prove those scrolls don't tell the whole truth ofyour history,
if they can find some real evidence
of another culture from some remote past, will you let them off?
- Of course. - Let's go up to the cave.
Sorry, Lucius. You've got to stay here and guard the camp.
Always giving orders. Just like every other adult.
Relax. You'll get to see it all later on.
Present your evidence, Cornelius.
It was at this level that l discovered traces of an early ape creature.
A stage of primitive barbarism really, dating back some 1,300 years roughly.
It was at this level... I discovered cutting tools and arrowheads of quartz
and the fossilised bones of carnivorous gorillas.
But the artefacts
Iying here
were found at this level,
and date back... 700 years earlier.
That's the paradox.
For the more ancient culture is the more advanced.
Now, admittedly, many ofthese objects are unidentified.
But clearly they were fashioned by beings with a knowledge of metallurgy.
Indeed, the fact that many ofthese tools are unknown to us
suggests a culture which in certain ways equals our own.
Some ofthe evidence is uncontestable.
Don't speak to me in absolutes. The evidence is contestable!
I apologise, sir.
To begin with, your methods of dating the past are crude to say the least.
There are geologists on my staff who'd laugh at your speculations.
But there's the doll, sir.
What?
Oh, lying right there. The human doll.
What does this prove? My granddaughter plays with human dolls.
The doll was found beside the jawbone of a man
and no trace of simian fossil has been found in this deposit.
Your conclusion is premature.
Have you forgotten your scripture? The 13th scroll?
"And Proteus brought the upright beast into the garden and chained him to a tree,
- and the children did make sport of him." - No, sir, l have not forgotten.
Well, for a time the ancients kept humans as household pets
until our lawgiver proved that man could not be tamed.
Keep digging, Cornelius. You'll find evidence of the master ofthis house...
An ape.
What are you doing?
Reconstructing a past life.
You say these things were found at the same level as that doll?
Whoever owned them must have been in pretty bad shape.
He wore false teeth.
And eyeglasses.
He had a failing heart.
Towards the end, he... had this prefabricated valve put in it.
I don't say he was a man like l knew at home,
but he must have been a close relative. He had all the same weaknesses.
He was a weak,
fragile animal.
But he was here before you
and he was better than you are.
That's lunacy! l can offer alternate descriptions of every one ofthose articles
which is just as ingenious as yours.
But it'd be conjecture, not proof.
Mamma!
Dr Zaius, would an ape make a human doll
that talks?
Lucius!
You dirty...
Nova!
Cornelius!
Zira!
Help me!
Mamma!
I oughta kill you right now.
Come on!
Tell 'em to pull back. Now!
Cease fire! Withdraw!
Up there!
Withdraw!
Get down!
Lucius, are you all right?
They took me by surprise.
Sneaked up on me while l was feeding the horses.
What's happened to honour?
I got offtwo rounds to warn you.
- They've taken everything. - Not quite everything!
They left a hostage behind.
- How are you feeling? - Disillusioned.
You can't trust the older generation.
I know what you mean.
I want you to go round the rocks and tell those gorillas l've got Dr Zaius prisoner.
Yes, l can do that.
I want a horse, food, and water. Enough for a week for me and this female.
- And 50 rounds of ammunition. - What ifthey won't agree to your terms?
Tell them l'll shoot him.
Taylor, you can't!
Oh, yes, he can.
He's a born killer.
Deliver the message.
Over here.
Sit down.
Taylor, please! Don't treat him like that!
- Why not? - It's humiliating.
The way l was humiliated... by all ofyou?
You led me around on a leash!
That was different. We thought you were inferior.
Now you know better.
Cornelius was right, doctor. He proved it.
Man was here first. You owe him your science, your culture,
- whatever civilisation you've got. - Then answer me this.
If man was superior, why didn't he survive?
Wiped out by a plague, some natural catastrophe, a storm of meteors.
>From the looks of some parts ofthis planet, l'd say that was a fair bet.
But we can't be sure.
He is.
He knew all the time. Long before you found your cave, he knew.
Defender of the faith? Guardian of the terrible secret.
- That's it, isn't it, doctor? - What l know of man was written long ago.
Set down by the greatest ape of all, our lawgiver.
Cornelius,
come here.
Reach into my pocket. Read to him
the 29th scroll.
6th verse.
"Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn."
"Alone among God's primates,
he kills for sport or lust or greed."
"Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land."
"Let him not breed in great numbers,
for he will make a desert of his home and yours."
"Shun him."
"Drive him back into his jungle lair."
"For he is the harbinger of death."
I found nothing in the cave to alter that conception of man
and l still live by its injunction.
That's far enough!
They think you're behaving foolishly.
I must say, l agree!
Where will you go?
To start with, l'll follow the shoreline and my nose.
But suppose you find nothing but... but wasteland?
How will you survive?
He won't survive.
Nova.
How about coming along?
- We can't. - It's better than going to jail for heresy.
Oh, they can't convict us of heresy.
You've helped prove our innocence.
Besides... his culture
is our culture.
Well, good luck, then.
Lucius.
I still say you're making a mistake.
That's the spirit. Keep 'em flying.
- What? - The flags of discontent.
Remember, never trust anybody over 30.
Doctor, l'd like to kiss you goodbye.
All right, but
you're so damned ugly.
Don't try to follow us. I'm pretty handy with this.
Of that l'm sure.
All my life l've awaited your coming and dreaded it, like death itself.
Why?
I've terrified you from the first, doctor. I still do.
You're afraid of me and you hate me. Why?
Because you're a man.
And you're right.
I have always known about man.
>From the evidence, l believe his wisdom must walk hand in hand with his idiocy.
His emotions must rule his brain.
He must be a warlike creature who gives battle
to everything around him, even himself.
What evidence? There were no weapons in that cave.
The forbidden zone was once a paradise.
Your breed made a desert of it... ages ago.
It still doesn't give me the why.
A planet where apes evolved from men.
There's gotta be an answer.
Don't look for it, Taylor.
You may not like what you find.
Untie me!
No, no, no! Wait!
Wait!
Let him go!
Lieutenant, fetch your explosives. We're going to seal up the cave.
Yes, sir!
- Seal the cave? - That is correct.
And you will both stand trial for heresy.
- But the proof! The doll! - In a few minutes there will be no doll.
There can't be. I'm sorry.
Dr Zaius!
Dr Zaius, you mustn't! You promised!
What l do, l do with no pleasure.
- Silence him! - Doctor.
Dr Zaius, this is inexcusable!
Why must knowledge stand still?
What about the future?
I mayjust have saved it for you.
What will he find out there, doctor?
His destiny.
Oh, my God!
I'm back!
I'm home.
All the time, it was...
We finally really did it.
You maniacs!
You blew it up!
God damn you!
God damn you all to hell!