POTA is a five part series of sci-fi movies made in the early eighties and late seventies. The first one won some awards for costume design and was kind of a big deal. The worlds best over actor Mr. Charlton Heston himself starred in it. The biggest redeeming quality of this series is that the character "Nova" is unbelievably hot; I have yet to do any real scientific studies but I believe her primal cave-woman sex appeal to be universal.Interesting note: while the first POTA was a success, Heston did not want to appear in any more and had his character killed off in the second movie.
The first movie left Taylor and Nova heading off into the forbidden zone on horseback and the second picks up right where it left off, with Taylor and Nova on horseback. Taylor somehow falls through a wall of fire never to be seen again. Another American space craft crash lands on the planet carrying a few more astronauts. One astronaut is killed and one survives, only to be captured by the apes. Of course he escapes the apes and flees to the forbidden zone where he finds telepathic mutants and Taylor. These mutants worship an unexploded nuclear bomb or "doomsday bomb" that is capable of destroying all life on earth. The apes march on the forbidden zone, there is a huge battle, and at the end the doomsday bomb is exploded, which is a key event for the other three movies.
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