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Planet of the Apes
Released: April 3, 1968
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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Michael Wilson, Rod Serling
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Released: April 8, 1970
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Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: James Bridges
Starring: Alice Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own.
