Great sites

Mistakes

Franciscus' character arrives at a New York City subway station called Queensborough Plaza. Queensborough Plaza is an above ground station. Queens Plaza is the name of an underground station in New York City. (They are located within walking distance of each other, but are definitely distinct stations). See more...

Picture

Movie Mistakes blog

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) - 3 corrections

Add actor/director information

Genres: Sci-fi, Action, Drama

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click "edit" under an entry, then choose "correct entry". You can also submit corrections for corrections, if you think a mistake has been unfairly removed.

Mistakes

Pictures

Corrections

Submit

Taylor states that a nuclear bomb with a Cobalt casing, when detonated, would result in Earth's atmosphere being destroyed. In reality, a Cobalt-cased nuclear bomb wouldn't be any more powerful than a normal one; the only difference would be that the fallout radiation would remain lethal for several decades, rather than a few months. [The bomb he is referring to is a cobalt chloride bomb, sometimes called a 'cobalt salt' bomb. There is no theoretical limit on their size, and a sufficiently large one would make the Earth's entire atmosphere radioactive for 94,000 years. Effectively the air that we breathe would be a deadly poison. If that isn't 'destroying the atmosphere' I don't know what is.]

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate X

Throughout the "Planet of the Apes" movies, chimpanzees are portrayed as peaceful pacifists, while gorillas are prone to violence. Later scientific discoveries after the film was released proved (at least in some respects) the reverse: while gorillas are the more peaceful apes, getting violent only to protect their families or territory, chimpanzees have been found out to eat meat as well, attacking and dismembering small animals and even monkeys. [But these are not today's apes, they have been through an evolutionary process and changed. We are not the same in behavior as Neandertals or Cro-Magnon man. Since gorillas are stronger and not quite as smart as chimps, they have been relegated to the more brute force roles and overtime become more militant, while the chimps being brighter and lingual have become less aggressive.]

Edit Corrected by Myridon

Correction Edit text Duplicate X

In the scene where Taylor and Brent escape from the cell, just before Nova dies, Charlton Heston has a club in his hand and takes one off the wall handing it to Brent. This is shown to be the last club on the wall, but in the next shot there is a club hanging on the wall behind them in the same spot, yet Taylor and Brent each have one too. [There were two clubs on the wall after they escaped.]

Edit Corrected by DaveJB

Correction Edit text Duplicate X