James Franciscus

Yeah, I did.

Oh, James Franciscus, Charlie Franciosa, Laura McCall, oh,

yeah.

I love how you always go there, Mario.

William Wellman won the first Academy Award for Outstanding Picture for Wings in 1927.

Her sister married actor James Franciscus.

She herself was married to Robert Donner, who is best known for his Mork & Mindy appearances, and we discussed him in the Charlie's Angels episode as one of the baddies hunting down Bobby Skip in To Kill an Angel.

Both Sissy and Robert were on The Waltons, and their characters got married in 1977.

... quite well.

So you guys, I fell kind of down a rabbit hole where I've been so into watching chiropractor videos.

Ugh, I know.

Okay.

It's like an addiction now.

Do you just get, like, that relief when you watch somebody have a nice satisfying pop? Is that what it is?

I think I'm just a dum-dum and just need to schedule with my own chiropractor, and I think it would maybe take some of this addiction away from me.

It's almost like I'm feeling the satisfaction-

It is written by William Bast, Julian Moore, and Willis H. O'Brien.

It stars James Franciscus.

Is it Gila or Gila? [laughing]

Your guess is as good as mine.

So that's a cool concept.

And you know, like Don says, some of the human subplots, it's whatever.

You know, like you got rent-a-center Charlton Heston, James Franciscus.

[laughs]

I'm just saying, he knew what was going to make him, in fact, they wanted him back for the second movie, and he said no, and they paid him gobs of money, and he's in it literally for four and a half minutes.

James Franciscus is basically a Charles Heston clone.

I mean, it's one of those things.

Stick to what you know, and it makes you money.

He understood deeply that two different people can learn the exact same boxing jab from the exact same coach, and yet they will never own the same jab.

Why not?

Your arm length, your natural temperament, your age, your eyesight, your baseline level of aggression, all of these highly individual biological factors will radically change how the tool is actually expressed in reality.

Oh, that makes sense.

Classical martial arts often asked a five-foot tall person and a six-foot tall person to wear the exact same physical shape, to do the exact same form.

Um, this, um, uh, this was written by Paul Dehn, D-E-H-N, Dehn, who wrote or co-wrote, um, one of the best James Bond movies, "Goldfinger," and, and all four of the sequels to "Planet of the Apes." Um, so what I like about "Planet of the Apes" is its adventurous tone.

Now, some parts I don't like when Brent, James Franciscus, mistreats Nova, Linda Harrison.

Yeah.

That goes a little too far.

Mm-hmm

...

James Franciscus, Linda Harrison, Maurice Evans from the first movie, and the great Kim Hunter, and Victor Buono, and Charlton Heston.

And, um, Roddy McDowall, who essentially is Planet of the Apes, was not in this movie because he was over in Europe directing a film, the one and only movie he ever directed, Tom Lin, Tam Lin, T-A-M and L-I-N. Um, so David Watson fills in as Cornelius.

We're just Jim.

James Franciscus, Linda Harrison, Maurice Evans, James Gregory, Kim Hunter, and David Watson.

So this is the one where Roddy missed out because...

He was actually set to direct a film, so he couldn't just walk away from it, but he said he would have loved to have been in Beneath.

Linda Harrison as Nova, a savage beauty from the enslaved and voiceless human race.

They're marked for target practice.

James Franciscus as astronaut Brent on a reckless mission to rescue Taylor, trapped by the swaggering, brutal master race of apes who dominate the Earth.

A planet shattered by the atomic war of a distant, forgotten past.

We saw Planet of the Apes.

We saw – then we followed up with Beneath the Planet of the Apes, which we skipped over here, but James Franciscus and we did that.

We kept on going to the concession stand.

We picked up our Goobers and our root beer and sugar babies.