Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes opens where the original Planet
Of The Apes movie closed. We find that not one but two
spacecraft have actually landed on the planet.
The second craft contains our hero, Brent (James
Franciscus) - an astronaut launched on a rescue mission in an effort to
find the missing astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston).
Brent finally locates him in an underground fortress in
the Forbidden Zone guarded by telepathic mutated humans who worship the
ultimate in nuclear destructive power - the Alpha Omega bomb.
At the same time, the apes are suffering a famine and
invade the Forbidden Zone in search of food and some understanding of
the legendary evils said to lurk there. They and the mutants become
locked in deadly combat.
The Alpha Omega bomb is ultimately detonated (by Taylor)
and the planet is destroyed.
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