Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post and written by Paul Dehn. It is the second of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. The film stars James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, and Linda Harrison, and features Charlton Heston in a supporting role.

Following the events of Planet of the Apes, timedisplaced astronaut Taylor Charlton Heston and the mute Nova Linda Harrison are riding on horseback through the desert of the Forbidden Zone. Without warning, fire shoots up from the ground and deep chasms open. Confused by the strange phenomenon, Taylor investigates a cliff wall and disappears before Novas eyes.Elsewhere in the Forbidden Zone, a second spaceship has crash landed after being sent to search for Taylor and his crew. Like Taylors ship, it has traveled into Earths distant future. However, surviving astronaut Brent James Franciscus believes he has traveled to another planet. He encounters Nova and notices she is wearing Taylors dog tags. Hoping Taylor is still alive, he rides with her to Ape City, where he is shocked to discover the simian civilization. He observes the gorilla General Ursus James Gregory leading a rally calling for the apes to conquer the Forbidden Zone and use it as a potential food source, against the objections of the orangutan Dr. Zaius Maurice Evans. Brent is wounded by a gorilla soldier and taken by Nova to the home of the chimpanzees Cornelius David Watson and Zira Kim Hunter, who treat his wound and tell him of their time with Taylor. The humans hide when Dr. Zaius arrives and announces that he will accompany Ursus on the invasion of the Forbidden Zone. ........

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