Word: franciscus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he actually talks, of course. Jonathan and the rest of his feathered friends are real birds-not mechanical, not animated-but their voices and interior monologues are rendered by actors. James Franciscus speaks for Jonathan, Juliet Mills for his love interest, Hal Holbrook for the Elder, Richard Crenna and Dorothy McGuire for Jonathan's parents. None of these actors has chosen to be included in the film's credits, a privilege only the least charitable would question...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes finds Astronaut James Franciscus searching frantically for Charlton Heston, who, it may be recalled, got hung up in a time warp in the original. Franciscus and Heston's girl friend (Linda Harrison) escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston...
Three astronauts, Pruett (Richard Crenna), Stone (James Franciscus) and Lloyd (Gene Hackman), have been in orbit for five months. Deterioration of reflex and temperament have set in so markedly that the two can deliver only muted snuffles back to earth. "Return!" comes the order from Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) at Mission Control. But the retrorockets misfire. With less than 48 hours of oxygen left, Control decides to abandon the boys to God and Walter Cronkite-at least until the entrance of crusty Space Veteran Ted Dougherty (David Janssen...