Damn, dirty apes tonight on Mount Pony

By Allison Brophy Champion

Published: January 13, 2009

The Library of Congress Packard Campus continues its month-long tribute to stars who passed away in 2008 with a screening of “Planet of the Apes” (1968, 20th Century Fox) Tuesday night at 7 in the Mount Pony Theater.

Seats are still available for the free show starring the late, great Charlton Heston as George Taylor, one of several astronautes on a long, long space mission. When the spaceship crashes on a remote planet, it seems the place is devoid of intelligent life.

But no: talking, thinking, reasoning apes rule this planet and turns out, it’s a multilayered civilization in which the humans do the grunting. With Maurice Evans as the ape leader and Roddy McDowell and Kim Hunter as the sympathetic ape scientists.

“Planet of the Apes” runs 1 hour, 52 minutes and it’s in color.

RESERVATIONS: (540) 827-1079 x79994 –or- (202) 707-9994.

Don’t have reservations? Show up in the lobby early to get on stand-by. All outstanding reservations will be awarded 10 minutes prior to showtime to those with stand-by tickets.