: In Ape City, the gorilla General Ursus calls for a holy war to invade the Forbidden Zone and seize it as a food source, despite the warnings of the orangutan Dr. Zaius.
The story culminates in a three-way conflict between the invading ape army, the psychic mutants, and the astronauts. subtitle Beneath the Planet of the Apes
: Deep underground, they find a society of telepathic human mutants who survived the nuclear holocaust generations earlier. These mutants are horribly scarred and hide their disfigured faces under lifelike masks. They worship a massive, cobalt-cased nuclear weapon they call the "Divine Bomb". The Climax : In Ape City, the gorilla General Ursus
: A second spacecraft crash-lands on Earth in the year 3955. The sole survivor, Brent (James Franciscus), was sent on a rescue mission to find Taylor. He encounters Nova, who is wearing Taylor's dog tags, and they travel to Ape City together. Key Plot Developments : Deep underground, they find a society of