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4.9.10

beneath the planet of the apes (1970)


"My God, it's...it's a city of apes!"
Follow up to Planet of the Apes, this recaps the previous film, before continuing the story. Nova (Linda Harrison)
encounters Brent (James Franciscus) who has come to rescue Taylor, but the humans encounter various friendly and
unfriendly apes. Pursued by the gorilla army, the humans go subterreanean and discover the New York underground
system, and some human telekinetic survivors who worship 'the lawgiver' a nuclear missle.
Entertaining sequal, that develops the story into new and interesting areas.

6.3.10

hang 'em high (1968)

"When you hang a man you better look at him."
A band of vigilantes hang ex-lawman Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood), believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder. They leave him for dead, hang him and leave him for dead. Found by a marshall he takes up with Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle), and becomes a Deputy Marshall to exact revenge. But once on the trail he comes to believe the judge is too quick to hang a man and learns to difference between revenge and justice.
Whilst not in the same league as the Dollar trilogy, this is nevertheless a fine western, which brings to the fore the morals of an eye for an eye.