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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:

Ted Post

Writers:

Pierre Boulle (characters)
Paul Dehn (story) ...
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Release Date:

26 May 1970 (USA) more

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi more

Tagline:

The bizarre world you met in 'Planet of the Apes' was only the beginning... What lies beneath may be the end! more

Plot:

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans. full summary | add synopsis

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Charlton Heston Dies at 84
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adventurous second installment more (105 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:

Planet of the Apes Revisited (USA) (working title)
Planet of the Men (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | Australia:M | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 (original rating) | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Norway:16 (1970) | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | USA:G | West Germany:16 | Iceland:L


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Trivia:

An early draft of the script, called "Planet of the Men", and written by Pierre Boulle in his native French, featured a messianic Taylor 14 years after the events of the 1968 original. It involved an uprising against the apes, following which they revert back to their primal states. more

Goofs:

Continuity: In Planet of the Apes (1968) Taylor reads his ship's clock at 11-25-3978, but when Brent lands in this movie, he states to Skipper, his dying partner, that his clock reads 3955. That would mean he got to Earth 23 years earlier than Taylor. more

Quotes:

John Brent: That thing out there, an atomic bomb... is your god? more

Movie Connections:

Featured in Nightmare Theatre's Late Night Chill-o-Rama Horror Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V) more


FAQ

A NOTE REGARDING SPOILERS
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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
adventurous second installment, 24 July 2003
Author: GURNEY RAMPART

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES picks up where the first left off and revolves around a mystery surrounding the disapperance of taylor. At the same time astronaughts from earth crash land in the future and one survives to take up the quest for taylor. While the search goes on for taylor the apes in ape city are planning a military foray into the forbidden zone; a foray that will bring them face to face and into conflict with mentally superior humans who live in a dead city. BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES promises alot and delivers and is adventure on a grand scale. The only thing holding it back are awkward subplots where the humans worship a atom bomb and sing to it. The film handles the lack of charlton hestons involvement well and structured the story around that impedement. Out of ten stars this film gets eight.

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