After appearing in Dark City, Charlton Heston was afraid that by making the film, he had effectively doomed his movie career before it could truly begin. Having starred in movies like Ben-Hur, Planet ...

Beneath the Planet of the Apeswas released just a few years after the original film, but Charlton Heston was hesitant to reprise his role in the sequel. After the smashing success of 1968's Planet of ...