“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” is my favorite sequel in the ape picture cycle. Charlton Heston, “Taylor” and his companion, “Nova”, continue on their quest to find an Eden on the scorched planet away from the dominant species apes they have more than had their fill of following the telling of the first Ape movie, “Planet of the Apes”. The two end up being imprisioned by a mutant race of humans living among the nuclear war shattered ruins of New York city. The mutants worship a doomsday bomb that comes in to play later on in the movie. Enter James Franciscus as “Brent”, the only surviving astrounaut of a resue mission to find out what happened to Taylor and his crew who were lost to Earth after their space mission left them stranded on the Planet of the Apes. Well, needless to say things get a little wild as an ape expedition is mounted to explore the “Forbidden Zone”, a squalid, desert landscape which was more than likely one of the ground zero landing locations for nuclear missles in some far distant war. Let’s just say that the apes, the mutants and the remaining astronauts are not playing on the same page so conflict ensues. End of the World? You’ll find out.
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