Le secret de la planète des singes

Titre original : Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970
PG
1h 35m

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6,0/10

55 k

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Le secret de la planète des singes (1970)

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Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Taylor et Nova parcourent la «Planète des singes». Un nouveau vaisseau est envoyé sur la planète, mais il s'écrase. Le seul survivant rencontre Nova, une planète dominée par les singes, à l'... Tout lireTaylor et Nova parcourent la «Planète des singes». Un nouveau vaisseau est envoyé sur la planète, mais il s'écrase. Le seul survivant rencontre Nova, une planète dominée par les singes, à l'exception d'une mystérieuse société souterraine.Taylor et Nova parcourent la «Planète des singes». Un nouveau vaisseau est envoyé sur la planète, mais il s'écrase. Le seul survivant rencontre Nova, une planète dominée par les singes, à l'exception d'une mystérieuse société souterraine.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,0/10

55 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
Pierre Boulle, author of the original novel, wrote a screenplay entitled "Planet of the Men" in his native French. It featured a messianic Taylor fourteen years after the events of La planète des singes (1968) and involved a human uprising against the apes, following which they revert back to their primal state. The studio obviously chose to ignore his concept and used a new script for the film instead (which did feature an uprising - the chimpanzees against the other apes, but was changed prior to filming, possibly due to the reduced budget).

Gaffes
(at around 22 mins) 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 costumes.

Citations
[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.

Générique farfelu
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Autres versions
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.

Connexions
Featured in Les évadés de la planète des singes (1971)

Bandes originales
All Things Bright and Beautiful
(uncredited)
Music by Leonard Rosenman
Lyrics by Paul Dehn
sung by choir of mutants

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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.