Beneath the Planet of the Apes

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES . . . in the buried ruins of what was once New York City, lived an incredible race of men, mutated beyond belief by the effects of the ancient Holocaust. . . . in the ashes of atomic dust, chimpanzees picketed for peace while their gorilla leaders prepared for war. . . . where a great church once shone in the sunlight, dark religious ceremonies paid tribute to the Great Bomb, bringer of life and death. This is the Earth, thousands of years from now, and this the story of two men from the 20th century who somersaulted through a time warp into the most plausible and yet most fantastic adventure ever conceived. This is a novelization of the 1970 film by the same name. It was the second of five films in the original 1960s-1970s Planet of the Apes series. An alternate future for the Earth is depicted where apes rule over humans.