Natalie Trundy

Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet of the Apes ever created, this fascinating 127-minute documentary explores one of the most imaginative and influential series in movie history.

Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.

シーザーが主導した人間への反乱は、最終的に核戦争へと発展し、地球の支配者は人間から猿に移り変わった。2003年、シーザーは原野に新たな集落を築き、人間を召使としてだが共存して暮らしていた。補佐役である人間のマクドナルドは人間と猿の対等な関係を求めるが、シーザーは過去の経緯から人間の解放に慎重な態度をとっていた。ある日、シーザーは「死んだ両親の記録が壊滅した都市に保管されている」とマクドナルドから聞き、マクドナルドとヴァージルを連れて核戦争で壊滅した都市に向かう。

A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.

コーネリアスの語ったとおり、疫病により犬や猫は死滅し、猿が第一位のペットとなった。1991年、日々深まるサルたちの奴隷としての扱い、コーネリアスの息子シーザーの養父も同然だった人間アルマンドの死をきっかけに、シーザーは反乱を決意。高度の知能とテレパシーを武器に猿たちのリーダーとなり、ついに反乱を起こす。

ミュータント人類と猿類との戦争は、地球の消滅で幕を閉じた。コーネリアスとジーラはその直前に宇宙船で脱出したが、たどり着いたのは1973年の地球であった。最初はサルを好意的に受け入れた米国社会だったが、地球の未来が「サルによる人間の支配」であることが判明し、動揺が広がる。人間達はコーネリアス達を疎むようになり、2匹は命を狙われ始める。

禁断地帯を旅するテイラーとノバは、突如大きな地割れと炎に襲われテイラーは行方不明となってしまう。テイラーを追ってきたブレントの元にノバが現れ、ノバはテイラーの言付けに従い、ジーラに会うため町に案内する。ブレントはジーラ達の協力で禁断地帯へと向かうが、兵士に発見され地下に逃げ込んだ際、荒廃した地下鉄駅を見付け、未来の地球であることを知る。地下を進みニューヨークの廃墟にたどり着くと人類文明を破壊したコバルト爆弾を信仰し超能力を持つミュータント化した人類に出会う。

Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.

A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to a wealthy widower and his daughter. A compulsive gambler who owes several anxious investors a small fortune, Dino has trouble cutting his losses, no matter how bad the losing streak.