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The "uncut" version of CONQUEST was released as part of the Blu-Ray DVD boxed set and it was shown on the FMC as part of their APES marathon, so it is out there to be seen...
As far as it being butchered up, it wasn't cut as much as everyone acts like... The main cuts were during the revolt and of those, most of them were basically a lot of splattered blood shots but nothing you could really say affected the story/film plotwise... Besides cutting most of the bloody shots out, they altered the soundtrack and reused cues rather than using what Tom Scott had written for some of the various scenes... Those were the only major changes, the story itself did not lose any plot or major scenes. The only lengthy scene that was known to exist that wasn't included in either the "uncut" version or the released cut was the opening scene where a chimp is trying to escape from the city and is shot down by police, but that scene may not exist anymore (in it's original form) because bits of it were edited out and used in the film during the scene where Caesar is trying to escape the police... (They also used a shot of the dead chimp lying on the ground during one of the revolution scenes.)
Regarding Caesar's speech, that was never cut up... It was the same dialog in both cuts of the film, there were no lines edited from it... If anything, it was the released cut of the film that messed with it: They added the cop-out (tacked on) ending to his speech in that one.
As far as it being butchered up, it wasn't cut as much as everyone acts like... The main cuts were during the revolt and of those, most of them were basically a lot of splattered blood shots but nothing you could really say affected the story/film plotwise... Besides cutting most of the bloody shots out, they altered the soundtrack and reused cues rather than using what Tom Scott had written for some of the various scenes... Those were the only major changes, the story itself did not lose any plot or major scenes. The only lengthy scene that was known to exist that wasn't included in either the "uncut" version or the released cut was the opening scene where a chimp is trying to escape from the city and is shot down by police, but that scene may not exist anymore (in it's original form) because bits of it were edited out and used in the film during the scene where Caesar is trying to escape the police... (They also used a shot of the dead chimp lying on the ground during one of the revolution scenes.)
Regarding Caesar's speech, that was never cut up... It was the same dialog in both cuts of the film, there were no lines edited from it... If anything, it was the released cut of the film that messed with it: They added the cop-out (tacked on) ending to his speech in that one.
It still holds up today...no guestion about that...you have to remember in the 50's and 60's sci fi was about "space something or another" but when man landed on the moon "space" wasn't sci fi anymore.Apes put sci fi back on the map 
It's sequels were just the studio trying to make money off the original film.
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