# Old movie about apes but not planet of apes series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 31, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516 "2024-10-31T20:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/1 "2024-10-31T20:07:49Z")
Is old movie maybe 1970s. At the end of the movie 2 men fighting and one of them is living with helicopter and the other stays alone in mountains with caves and apes. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/2 "2024-10-31T22:34:43Z")
King Kong remake? ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/3 "2024-10-31T22:48:30Z")
The Last Dinosaur? Not apes but the film ends with the main characters all leaving with one man staying behind to stay with the cavemen. ---
**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/4 "2024-11-01T09:38:30Z")
thanks for the reply No it is not science fiction , i think place should be afganistan , deserted , with mountains and caves but i am not sure if they are apes in afganistan in reality. I watched this film as a kid and i couldnt understand why the man choose to stay in mountain alone (with apes) while he could leave also with helicopter. Strange movie ---
**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/5 "2024-11-01T09:39:04Z")
Thanks for the reply but it was not science fiction ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/6 "2024-11-01T10:29:47Z")
**Sands of the Kalahari** “The remaining survivors make their escape in a helicopter. O’Brien, aware he will be prosecuted for murder if he returns to civilization, chooses to remain behind.” > **[Sands of the Kalahari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_of_the_Kalahari)** > > Sands of the Kalahari is a 1965 British adventure film starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews, Theodore Bikel and Nigel Davenport, based on the 1960 novel The Sands of Kalahari by William Mulvihill. The screenplay was written by Cy Endfield and the uncredited William Mulvihill and directed by Cy Endfield. It was filmed in South West Africa (now Namibia) and Spain and released by Paramount Pictures. > A disparate and desperate group of plane crash survivors are thru... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/7 "2024-11-01T11:04:51Z")
Excellent ID job. ---
**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/8 "2024-11-01T17:31:47Z")
OMG ! you find it , i am searching for this movie 20 years thank you very much ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/9 "2024-11-01T17:52:18Z")
I, too, remember this movie from when I was a kid. As a youngster it was kind of haunting as I didn’t understand the nuances. It’s one of those movies that’s stuck with me. Re watching that trailer is spooky ---
**Author:** ![Sim77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sim77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sim77)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/10 "2024-11-01T18:14:59Z")
I was very young maybe 10 years old , and i couldnt understand why he prefer to stay with baboons. Why he didnt got onboard at helicopter. And that last scene stack in my mind for years I wrote that it is 20 years but it is much more , maybe 35 years i am thinking this movie Thanks all of you ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-about-apes-but-not-planet-of-apes-series/1009516/11 "2024-11-01T20:18:47Z")
Here’s how I found it. The Internet is a useful resource, it turns out. > **[Motion Pictures featuring monkeys and apes](https://primate.wisc.edu/primate-info-net/pin-factsheets/primates-in-tv-and-film/motion-pictures-featuring-monkeys-and-apes/)** > > From the PIN archives: Compiled in 2009 by Ray Hamel, past WNPRC Special Collections Librarian, representing films from 1908-2008. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1996) Africa Express (1975) John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of...