{"id":33083,"date":"2023-06-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33083"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:05:36","slug":"beneath-the-planet-of-the-apes-1970-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33083","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beneath the Planet of the Apes&#8221; (1970) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061523zview_beneathpota.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Beneath the Planet of the Apes <\/em>(1970)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Ted Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Paul Dehn <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Paul Dehn, Mort Abrahams <\/strong>based on characters created by<strong> Pierre Boulle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Victor Buono, James Gregory, Jeff Corey, Natalie Trundy, Thomas Gomez, Gregory Sierra <\/strong>and <strong>Charlton Heston.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The bizarre world you met in &#8216;Planet of the Apes&#8217; was only the beginning&#8230; What lies beneath may be the end!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spaceship sent on a rescue mission crashes on an unidentified planet.\u00a0 Brent (Franciscus), the sole survivor, realizes he has somehow gone forward in time.\u00a0 As he explores his new surroundings, Brent comes across Nova (Harrison) a beautiful, but mute woman.\u00a0 Nova is wearing Taylor&#8217;s dogtags.\u00a0 Taylor is one of the astronauts his crew was sent to rescue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brent soon sees that the planet is populated by intelligent apes and humans are speechless savages.\u00a0 Hunted by apes, Brent and Nova hope to escape into the Forbidden Zone where something even more dangerous than apes awaits them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I loved (and still love) <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em>.\u00a0 I had such high hopes for <em>Beneath the Planet of the Apes<\/em>.\u00a0 Charlton Heston was set to return.\u00a0 This time Heston would be joined by James Franciscus (who I liked in <em>Valley of Gwangi<\/em> and various guest spots on tv).\u00a0 How could this go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let me count the ways&#8230; Heston&#8217;s role amounts to a glorified cameo.\u00a0 The ape civilization is made less threatening when we see young apes protesting the war (shades of Viet Nam).\u00a0 The whole subplot with disfigured humans who worship a nuclear bomb seems like it was cribbed from a bad episode of <em>Star Trek<\/em>. Other than <em>Highlander<\/em> to <em>Highlander 2<\/em>, I&#8217;ve never been as disappointed in a sequel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Beneath the Planet of the Apes <\/em>(1970)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z061523zview_beneathpota2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) Director: Ted Post Screenplay: Paul Dehn from a story by Paul Dehn, Mort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33084,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions\/33084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}