Richard Zanuck is to be credited for greenlighting the original 1968 “Planet of the Apes” (“Exploring His World,” by George F. Custen, Aug. 1). However, as I detail in my book “Planet of the Apes as ...
In 1967, producer Arthur P. Jacobs and 20th Century Fox released Dr. Dolittle, a musical comedy in which Rex Harrison talked to the animals. It flopped. But the next year, the same studio and producer ...