Paul Dehn

writer
Feature Film

Beneath the Planet of the Apes


Wearing tattered animal skins, James Franciscus (as Brent) and Linda Harrison
                (as Nova) emerge from a tunnel while apes march in the background.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

  • by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor
  • (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 26 May 1971)

Among the original Apes movies, only this one had true time travel; the others involved only relativistic time dilation, which (as even Dr. Milo knows) is technically not time travel. But in this one, Milo, Cornelius, and Zira are blown back to the time of the original astronauts (given the violence of the explosion, we’re going to call it a time rift) and are persecuted in a 70s made-for-TV manner. —Michael Main
Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?
Roddy McDowall (as Cornelius), Kim Hunter (as Zira), and Milo stand defiantly
                in front of a lineup of militia.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel