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| - Battle for The Planet of the Apes opens to a brief interlude with narrator John Huston as an ape known as The Lawgiver, speaking in the year 2670. We quickly flash back to what must be the early 21st century. This is a post-nuclear holocaust world. A small group of human and ape survivors are gathered in 'Ape City', a tiny village made up mostly of treehouses, which is ruled over by the ape king Caesar (Roddy McDowall), the child of the apes from the future: Cornelius and Zira. Unlike the Ape City in the first film, this one has humans and apes living side by side, although apes are clearly on the top rung of society. After conquering the oppressive humans in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar tries to keep the peace amongst the humans and apes, albeit with apes in charge.
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| - Battle for The Planet of the Apes opens to a brief interlude with narrator John Huston as an ape known as The Lawgiver, speaking in the year 2670. We quickly flash back to what must be the early 21st century. This is a post-nuclear holocaust world. A small group of human and ape survivors are gathered in 'Ape City', a tiny village made up mostly of treehouses, which is ruled over by the ape king Caesar (Roddy McDowall), the child of the apes from the future: Cornelius and Zira. Unlike the Ape City in the first film, this one has humans and apes living side by side, although apes are clearly on the top rung of society. After conquering the oppressive humans in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar tries to keep the peace amongst the humans and apes, albeit with apes in charge. Among the humans are MacDonald (Austin Stoker), the brother of Breck's personal assistant from the previous movie, and Abe the Teacher (Noah Keen), who is teaching the next generation of intelligent apes, including Caesar’s son, Cornelius (Bobby Porter) and a militant gorilla named General Aldo (Claude Akins). Among the ape residents are Caesar’s wife Lisa (Natalie Trundy) and two genius orangutans by the names of Virgil (Paul Williams) and Mandemus (Lew Ayres). It seems that Caesar is having problems with General Aldo and his soldiers because they wish to dominate and enslave the humans. MacDonald tells Caesar that tapes of his parents still exist in the underground archives (of which he had been supervisor) under the radioactive ruins of the city where Caesar was once a slave, which will reveal to Caesar that the gorillas one day will destroy the Earth (Cornelius' prediction from Escape from the Planet of the Apes). Caesar, Virgil and MacDonald return to the ruined city, where they encounter badly scarred and radiation sickened human survivors led by 'Governor' Kolp (Severn Darden), another of Breck's old assistants. Caesar's return stirs the vengeance within Kolp, and soon he and his mutant army are headed toward Ape City to take back civilization for themselves. Caesar must rally the troops, but Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. Image:Battle.jpg The mutant army from the city rolls up in three motorbikes, a jeep with a cannon and a school bus, and burns a few tree-houses. Sensing victory, they interrogate Caesar, who calls the apes to arms; the apes go on to win the battle. A sub-plot in the film involves the murder of Caesar's son by Aldo, culminating in the realisation that ape has killed ape and as a result, apes are now as dangerous - and sinful - as the humans they despise. Back to the Lawgiver giving his history lesson to both ape and human children some 600 years in the future. A nearby statue of Caesar appears to shed a tear - is it because Caesar has changed the future and apes and men live in harmony, or is it because his efforts will ultimately, inevitably fail? A deleted scene from the movie would have given the movie some real relevance to Beneath the Planet of the Apes. The cut scene involves two of the mutants who stay behind in the city (Paul Stevens and France Nuyen) to activate a doomsday bomb should Kolp and his army fail. The two mutants are about to fire off the bomb but elect not to set off the Alpha-Omega weapon as it would destroy the Earth, but instead decide to venerate it and form a religion around the bomb. This scene ties directly to the mutants found in Beneath and shows the beginnings of the House of Mendez cult.
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