Mayo Simon

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, archivist Sean Savage and design historian/Saul Bass biographer Pat Kirkham.

Release Date: 2024-02-27

Character: Self

Man from Atlantis

Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures and wields superhuman strength.

Release Date: 1977-09-22

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 59

Man From Atlantis: The Disappearances

Elizabeth is kidnapped, one of dozens of scientists held prisoner on the island of Felicitos, controlled by special mineral springs that render their victims completely happy and compliant. Dr. Smith is using them to build a rocket to take her away from our troubled planet in search of some better world, and Mark must find a way to counter the brain-washing and free the captives.

Release Date: 1977-06-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Man From Atlantis: Killer Spores

The Cetacean is called upon to recover a space probe that crashes in the sea, and Mark soon learns that the probe is covered with thousands of tiny alien beings. They intend to learn all they can about the human race by invading host bodies and controlling them. Mark must return them to space before they destroy all humanity.

Release Date: 1977-05-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Man From Atlantis: The Death Scouts

A human scientist capable of living underwater discovers similar alien life inhabiting human bodies, and looks to them for a clue to his origin.

Release Date: 1977-04-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Man From Atlantis

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

Release Date: 1977-03-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Futureworld

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

Release Date: 1976-08-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 322

Phase IV

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Release Date: 1974-09-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 253

Marooned

After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

Release Date: 1969-12-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 91

Why Man Creates

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Release Date: 1968-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 21

I Could Go on Singing

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

Release Date: 1963-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 23

The Army Game

Danny considers his time in the army a waste and pretends to be crazy to get a psychiatric discharge.

Release Date: 1956-07-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

A City Decides

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.

Release Date: 1956-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3