Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaves humans to live in peace. But warning factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general as well as various human groups threaten the stability.

• Director:J. Lee Thompson
• Genre:Action / Drama / Sci-Fi

Cast

Roddy McDowall : Caesar
Claude Akins : General Aldo
Natalie Trundy : Lisa
Severn Darden : Governor Kolp
Lew Ayres : Mandemus

Set in flashback in the early 21st century, and told by the Great Lawgiver, this sequel focuses on the ape leader, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), many years after he led the ape revolution in the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. In this post-nuclear war society, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between his simian peers and the surviving remains of humanity. A gorilla general named Aldo (Claude Akins) however wants nothing to do with this. Therefore, he plots Caesar’s overthrow and doom. Caesar is now married to Lisa (Natalie Trundy), the female ape of the previous film, and they have a son, named Cornelius (Bobby Porter) in honor of Caesar’s father.

Caesar regrets having never known his parents until his human assistant MacDonald (Austin Stoker) informs him that by viewing taped archives of his parents, he can learn of the future. Caesar learns the archives are in the Forbidden City, once the city where Caesar was enslaved in, and is now nuclear ruins.

After obtaining weapons from an armory run by Mandemus (Lew Ayres), Caesar travels with MacDonald and Virgil (Paul Williams) to the Forbidden City and sneaks in to find the record archives. However, there are radiation-scarred humans still living in the Forbidden City, now under the command of Governor Kolp (Severn Darden). Caesar and his party view the recordings of Cornelius and Zira and learn of the future of the world, but barely have enough time to study the tapes before they must escape or risk capture and death.

Cornelius assembles a meeting with the citizens to report his discoveries at the Forbidden City. Aldo objects to Caesar even when some humans show up in an Ape Council. Read more