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The screenplay was written by John Morton and Jay Simms. The film was released by AIP in 1962 as a double feature with Tales of Terror.
The film is not based on the plot of Jack Williamson's novel The Humanoids (1949), to which it bears little resemblance, but on an original story and screenplay written by Jay Simms. [1] In a post-nuclear-war society , blue-skinned, silver-eyed human-like robots have become a common sight as the surviving population suffers from a decreasing ...
May 11, 2023 · LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn. ( WHNT) — Jay Simms, a senior at Lincoln County High School, is taking his academic abilities to new heights. The 18-year-old is headed to Yale University, and he won’t...
Jay Simms is known as an Writer, Story, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Panic in Year Zero!, The Killer Shrews, The Giant Gila Monster, The Creation of the Humanoids, Honey West, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, and Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend.
Jay Simms was a screenwriter who was active from the late 1950s through the 1970s, and had a fascinating output of scripts, mostly in genres such as science fiction and westerns. His career wove between both the big-screen and the small-screen genres, and he was most active on western and adventure series across the 1960s such as Have Gun ...
The Giant Gila Monster is an American 1959 science fiction horror film directed by Ray Kellogg and produced by Ken Curtis. A famous B-movie of the era, the film stars Don Sullivan, a veteran of several low budget monster and zombie films, and Lisa Simone, the French contestant for the 1957 Miss Universe , as well as comedic actor Shug Fisher ...
Although scenarists Jay Simms (whose The Creation of the Humanoids [1962] was an unlikely mix of post-nuke fantasy and Sirkian melodrama) and John Morton receive sole screenplay credit, the team borrowed heavily from two obscure but well-regarded short stories written by novelist Ward Moore.
