Watch the movie trailer from the 1968 sci-fi classic “Planet of the Apes” by director Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall. Synopsis: Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.