Saturday, June 16, 2012

GONE APE

Fans of the Planet of the Apes films of the late 1960s and early 1970s were treated with the opportunity to spending most of an entire night watching all five of the entries back-to-back.

The THUNDERBIRD DRIVE-IN THEATRE on Highway 601 was the venue.

On FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1973, the theatre went bananas and ran all five features in the order of their theatrical releases.

PLANET OF THE APES
1968

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
1970

ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
1971

CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
1972

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
1973



September 6, 1973

September 7, 1973

September 8, 1973

September 9, 1973

The program was scaled back to the first and last
of the series for the Sunday - Thursday engagement.