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Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post from a screenplay by Paul Dehn, based on a story by Dehn and Mort Abrahams. The film is the sequel to Planet of the Apes (1968) and the second installment in the original Planet of the Apes film series. [3]
May 26, 1970 · A sci-fi adventure film about a rescue mission to find a missing astronaut on a future Earth ruled by apes. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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- Ted Post
- 1970-05-26
Apr 12, 2024 · Don't know why the underground mutants didn't use their powers on the filthy apes. If they could turn Brent and Taylor against each other, why not them? Maybe they only have the power to do that with just a couple of minds at a time?
Here, an earthling sent to find the astronauts of the original film discovers not only a world of intelligent, talking apes, but an underground cult of grotesque "humans" who are the survivors of...
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes opens where the first film left off, with Cornelius' voice-over reminding everyone of man's blight upon the world. After a repeat of the last few minutes of the first film, the sequel kicks in with Taylor and Nova wandering through the Forbidden Zone. In the meantime, two astronauts have been sent on a mission from Ea...
Primary Cast: 1. James Franciscus as John Brent 2. Linda Harrison as Nova 3. Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius 4. James Gregory as Gen. Ursus 5. Charlton Heston as George Taylor 6. Kim Hunter as Dr. Zira 7. David Watson as Dr. Cornelius 8. Tod Andrews as Skipper 9. Paul Richards as Mendez XXVI 10. Victor Buono as Adiposo the Fat Man 11. Don Pedro Colley a...
The movie was adapted into a stand-alone comic by Gold Key Comics, the first comic book adaptation of any of the POTA movies, in December 1970.
The first movie, Planet of the Apes establishes that George Taylor and his crew crash-land back on Earth in the year 3978. This is shown on the Icarus date-meter as well as the main menu screen on the Planet of the Apes: The Evolution DVD collection. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, however, Brent's ship lands on Earth after the events in the fir...
(See also: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Concept Art & Costume Tests) With Planet of the Apes breaking box-office records across the country, producers Richard D. Zanuck, Mort Abrahams and Arthur P. Jacobs met in Zanuck's office. Abrahams recalls: "'Planet' had been doing extremely well and we were talking, patting ourselves on the back, and givin...
This film is the POTA debut of actress Natalie Trundy. Playing the role of the mutant, Albina, Natalie would be the only female to appear in 4 of the 5 POTA films, as Dr. Stephanie Branton, and Cae...
Ursus:"I'll tell you one thing that every good soldier knows! The only thing that counts in the end is power! Naked merciless force!" Cornelius:"But you don't understand. Only apes can speak. Not her, and not you. If they catch you speaking, they will dissect you! And they will kill you! In that order!" Ursus: "Brutal butchery! I swear those respon...
Cast And Crew Beneath the Planet of the Apesproved to be surprisingly poorly-received by most of the people who worked on it. While it garnered more modest returns than its predecessor, this was to be expected with sequels; in fact it performed quite respectably, enough to justify a further sequel. The bad experiences on set and behind the scenes m...
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A sci-fi adventure film from 1970, based on Pierre Boulle's novel. It follows the sole survivor of a rescue mission who discovers a dark secret on the planet of the apes.
