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 telepathic... Read allThe 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 telepathic humans.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 telepathic humans.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Lucius
- (archive footage)
- Gorilla
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaJames Franciscus, who had spent most of his career playing doctors and lawyers, so welcomed the opportunity to wear a costume that could best be described as minimal. Franciscus was a natural athlete and keen tennis player, so was in great shape for the shoot.
- GoofsBrent was sent on a rescue mission to look for Taylor and his crew. This makes absolutely no sense for myriad reasons, including: 1) The first Planet of the Apes (1968) film specifically states that the crew was traveling near the speed of light. As such, decades or even centuries must have passed on Earth. Since the scientists who sent them on the mission would know, why would they send a rescue for a someone who they would never live long to "miss?" (the only way it would make sense is if Brent and his Skipper had been following Taylor's ship at a distance in case they needed assistance, and just never mentioned on the first film). 2) Where would they have "looked" for Taylor's mission? Space is a vast place and even sending a ship along the same route as Taylor would be no guarantee that they would ever find his vessel. 3) Even if Brent left the day after Taylor did, it would likely be decades or centuries before he caught up to Taylor, in which case the people who sent them both would be long dead before they knew if either mission was successful.
There was no need to sent Brent on a "rescue" or recovery mission as it would have taken place decades or centuries later than it would possible or necessary.
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[last lines]
Ending Voiceover: In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo does not appear on this film.
- Alternate versionsWhen originally released in the UK, the film was heavily cut to receive a lower certificate from the BBFC. This version excised most of the violent and horrific scenes, most notably from the last third of the film, including both scenes where Brent is forced to attack Nova, the revelation of the underground humans' true appearance, the fight Brent and Taylor are forced to have in the prison cell, the killing of the mutant guard on a spiked door, and much of the shoot-out at the film's climax. This cut version was later shown on British TV, c.1991, even though all UK video and DVD releases have been fully uncut and rated '15' since 1987.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- SoundtracksAll Things Bright and Beautiful
(uncredited)
Music by Leonard Rosenman
Lyrics by Paul Dehn
sung by choir of mutants
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.
- bkoganbing
- Aug 25, 2013
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- Planet of the Apes Revisited
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,999,718
- Gross worldwide
- $18,999,718
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1