[sickoflibs]

Recall the last scenes with Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans and Kim Hunter near the cave, when DR Zaus ordered the blowing up of the historical artifacts so the other apes never find out about them.

Zaus says “Man is evil and will destroy everything he comes across, he will make a desert of his home and yours” (isn't that the libs/illegals moving to where we live doing that?),
then Charlton Heston with the babe on a horse coming across the statue of liberty,’Damn you all to hell, you blew it up,.....”

I still love to watch the first ~ 20 minutes before they are captured, Heston's lines as Taylor are classic.
He rubs into one of the others “Everything you knew and loved are long dead”

When I was a teen I read the book too.
I never would of after these newer movies.

In those days acting and script mattered.

[NFHale]

The Statue of Liberty ending in the original was shocking as hell for 1968 audiences.

I remember seeing it in the movie theater. And also - in the human round-up scene where the gorilla wheels around on the horse, and the camera zooms in on him and you see exactly what is chasing the people... Brrr... that freaked me out.