If you remember the previous film in this series Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, the world met doomsday courtesy of a doomsday device left over from the human nuclear age. I would think it would have been hard pressed to come up with a sequel after that, but there must have been a demand for one.
While the cataclysm was happening, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, and Sal Mineo managed to get Charlton Heston's old ship in working order and transported back in reverse order to Earth of the second half of the 20th century and when it's discovered they speak and are from our future they're met with acclaim by most. But science adviser to the President of the USA Eric Braeden, he's quite alarmed.
Braeden proposes a King Herod like solution to President William Windom who really doesn't want to go down in history that way. Doesn't deter Braeden in the slightest.
This film in the Planet Of The Apes saga makes us learn that earth history courtesy of some unplanned time travel is in a time loop. Can we escape it.
A good ensemble cast makes us want to find out in the next film.
While the cataclysm was happening, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, and Sal Mineo managed to get Charlton Heston's old ship in working order and transported back in reverse order to Earth of the second half of the 20th century and when it's discovered they speak and are from our future they're met with acclaim by most. But science adviser to the President of the USA Eric Braeden, he's quite alarmed.
Braeden proposes a King Herod like solution to President William Windom who really doesn't want to go down in history that way. Doesn't deter Braeden in the slightest.
This film in the Planet Of The Apes saga makes us learn that earth history courtesy of some unplanned time travel is in a time loop. Can we escape it.
A good ensemble cast makes us want to find out in the next film.