Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 American science fiction movie directed by J. Lee Thompson and is the fifth and final movie in the original "Planet of the Apes" series. It stars Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston, Austin Stoker, France Nuyen, John Landis and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.