Rückkehr zum Planet der Affen

Originaltitel: Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970
12
1 Std. 35 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,0/10

55.616

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Home Video Trailer from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

trailer wiedergeben3:10

1 Video

80 Fotos

Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Der einzige Überlebende einer interplanetaren Rettungsmission sucht nach dem einzigen Überlebenden der vorherigen Expedition. Er entdeckt einen Planeten, der von Affen beherrscht wird.Der einzige Überlebende einer interplanetaren Rettungsmission sucht nach dem einzigen Überlebenden der vorherigen Expedition. Er entdeckt einen Planeten, der von Affen beherrscht wird.Der einzige Überlebende einer interplanetaren Rettungsmission sucht nach dem einzigen Überlebenden der vorherigen Expedition. Er entdeckt einen Planeten, der von Affen beherrscht wird.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,0/10

55.616

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Benutzerrezensionen224

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Still a good film

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.

r96sk
25. Feb. 2022
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Wissenswertes
The only film in the original series of five that does not star Roddy McDowall, who was committed to another project, his sole directorial effort "Tam Lin". Archive footage of McDowall as Cornelius is played at the start, and David Watson plays the character in the film proper. Despite this, McDowall is often pictured on video and DVD packaging for this film. Interestingly, Watson and McDowall appeared together two years earlier in the made-for-television musical "The Legend of Robin Hood" with Watson in the role of Robin Hood and McDowall playing Prince John.

Patzer
In the "steam room" scene, Zaius and Ursus are wearing only towels, yet they seem to have twice as much body mass naked than when they are wearing their clothing.

Zitate
[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 Credits
The 20th Century Fox logo does not appear on this film.

Alternative Versionen
When 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.