Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 123movies

Watch: Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – Brent is an American astronaut, part of a team sent to locate missing fellow American astronaut, George Taylor. Following Taylor’s known flight trajectory, the search and rescue team crash lands on an unknown planet much like Earth in the year 3955, with Brent being the only survivor of the team. What Brent initially does not know, much like Taylor didn’t initially know when he landed here before Brent, is that he has landed back on Earth in the future, in the vicinity of what was New York City. Brent finds evidence that Taylor has been on the planet. In Brent’s search for Taylor, he finds that the planet is run by a barbaric race of English speaking apes, whose mission is in part to annihilate the human race. Brent eventually locates some of those humans, who communicate telepathically and who live underground to prevent detection by the apes. These humans, who are in their own way as barbaric as the apes, want in turn to protect their species. Brent has to figure out a way to save himself under the circumstances, which may be more difficult to accomplish in the battle between the dominant species on this planet..
Plot: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 47,590
	37% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1020 Popularity: 20.494 | TMDB

Reviews:

Quite a far way off its predecessor, even if ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ is still a good film.

Charlton Heston reportedly wasn’t initially interested in returning for a sequel, though, to his credit, did in the end return briefly to tie up his character’s loose end – and apparently even gave his fee to charity. That’s why we don’t see much of him here, which is a shame but given the aforementioned it came out well enough.

James Franciscus takes over from Heston and does a fine job, the latter is definitely the better of the two but Franciscus is passable. Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans and Linda Harrison do return, though the first two basically play second fiddle to others – including newcomer James Gregory’s bunch of characters; Gregory is solid, fwiw. As for the film’s other parts, make-up etc., it’s basically the same as the original. The plot even feels similar for a fair chunk of this production, though it eventually goes its own way.

I’m even more interested to check out the subsequent sequels, given the ending to this 1970 film was apparently intended – by those on the ground, so to speak – to be the final entry; the studio evidently wasn’t in agreement.

**James Franciscus versus the mutant lunatics!**

A great, dark sequel to the original classic that goes beyond the downbeat ending of the original and gives us an even more depressing one! No mean feat considering how bleak the ending to the first movie was.

I love this movie. The legendary James Franciscus _(The Valley Of Gwangi_) is astronaut Brent – sent to find the missing Taylor. He finds him, of course, deep _beneath_ the ruins of a post apocalyptic city – imprisoned by _psychotic mutants_ with the power of telepathy.

Meanwhile, those _pesky apes_ are marching on the city to find out just what the hell is going on and what all the kerfuffle is about regarding reports of _crucified apes and bleeding statues._

This all leads to a shocking climax _you wont forget in a long time._

It’s all rather disturbing and that is precisely why it succeeds.

– Potential Kermode

“Oh Mighty Bomb”
It took two years for the sequel to Planet Of The Apes to get to the big screen, henceforth 20th Century Fox would space them out about a year at a time. Beneath The Planet Of The Apes seems to have been inspired a lot by Dr. Strangelove played far less tongue in cheek by the cast.

Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, and Charlton Heston return for this first sequel. And James Franciscus is the only survivor of a rescue ship sent after Heston and his crew. Of course he finds the same simian civilization that Heston found and with the same problems and friends among the apes.

Franciscus goes into the forbidden zone that Heston entered, but now the apes have a military chieftain who wants to enter and conquer the previous forbidden zone. He’s played by a thuggish James Gregory.

Maurice Evans is the scientist who has a vested interest in keeping the ape orthodox traditions inviolate. He doesn’t want to go into the forbidden zone where Heston and Franciscus have gone, but the force of public opinion is working against him. He tags along with Gregory’s military expedition to watch out for their culture.

Of course there are humans there and of a higher order than the simple creatures who were thought to be below the simian on this planet. What happens when they encounter those humans is for you to see the film for.

No doubt the force of public opinion influenced 20th Century Fox to make this sequel. Today’s sequels to popular films are the result of certain teaser questions put into the plots of the originals. That was not done back then clearly because of some rather clumsy writing in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. And certainly the ending here did not anticipate yet another sequel.

Despite that though a lot of good social commentary about the world and America got into this film, maybe even more than in the original Planet Of The Apes. Nobody could mistake the protests of the young chimpanzees to the military expedition for anything else, but criticizing the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s incursion into China.

As in the first film my favorite is foxy Maurice Evans, protector of the orthodox ape religion and culture. Fans of the series will be pleased with him and the film.

“Glory be to the bomb, and the holy fallout.”
You know how you lose track of time and then become astonished to learn how long ago something actually occurred. I reviewed “Planet of the Apes” on this board a full ten years ago! and haven’t seen any of it’s sequels since, until this one the other day. With a fairly clear memory of how the original ended, this one pretty much picks up from that point when search team astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) discovers the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, and journeys his way through the land of the Apes Forbidden Zone attempting to find Charlton Heston’s character from the earlier movie.

Perhaps it was evident in the original “Planet of the Apes” and I didn’t notice it, but the various ape tribes are organized by their vocation on the planet. The orangutans are scientists, the gorillas rule militarily and the chimpanzees portray ordinary citizens for the most part. Some cross over occurs, as with the characters of Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (David Watson), but for the most part the simians don’t cross boundaries. I thought that was kind of interesting, as humans on the planet are considered inferior by all – “The only good human is a dead human”.

What I really got a kick out of was the way Brent discovered his old neighborhood by way of the Queensboro Plaza Station and advertising for the New York Summer Festival. Shortly after, a casual stroll with Nova (Linda Harrison) brings them to the remains of the New York Public Library, the New York Stock Exchange and Radio City Music Hall. Not being a city resident, I wouldn’t know otherwise, but I wouldn’t bet that all those places were within walking distance of each other, but then again, it’s a sci-fi story.

Things get interesting in the second half of the picture when the humans make their appearance in the underground caverns, with their perverted views of religious fealty to an atomic bomb strategically placed in the remains of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. With their ability to project telepathic illusions however, I couldn’t quite figure out why they would have needed the rubber masks to hide their real features. Just a thought wave could have taken care of all that, wouldn’t it?

The way this one ends seems to indicate a doomsday scenario after Taylor (Heston) shows up once more, and it would seem there would be no justification for another three sequels, but I’m not up enough on my ‘Planet’ lore just yet to know how it all transpires. Still, I thought this was a fairly entertaining entry in the series of films, so I’ll be on the lookout for the others as time goes by.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 3000000
Revenue 18999718
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director Ted Post
Writer Paul Dehn, Mort Abrahams, Pierre Boulle
Actors James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,605 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm