'Planet of the Apes' (1968), preceded by Suspense: 'Nightmare at Ground Zero' (8/18/53)

Sunday, September 9, 2012
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater

Rod Serling: Other Dimensions

See below for additional information.

Admission

$9 General Admission.

Free admission on 8/26, 9/8

Contact

UCLA Film & TV Archive
(310) 206-8013
archive@ucla.edu

Website

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2012-07-27/rod-serlin...

Additional Information

Planet of the Apes (1968) Time-traveling astronaut Charlton Heston crashes on an unknown planet two millennia in the future and finds himself in a world run by highly-advanced apes who treat humans as beasts and slaves. Offering a bracing look in the mirror, the iconic adventure film is vintage Serling: transplanting social concerns onto a fantastic future world.

Suspense: "Nightmare at Ground Zero" (CBS, 8/18/53): In this eerily atmospheric live television drama directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), a henpecked artist hired by the U.S. Army to supply mannequins for an atomic test plots a horrific solution to dispose of his nagging wife.

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