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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made and in the "bottom 100" list on IMDb. It is featured in series episodes of Canned Film Festival in 1986, Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1991, and Elvira's Movie Macabre.
Nov 26, 2018 · Is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians one of the worst movies ever made or an underappreciated, disrespected cult classic? Did SCCtM kill these actors’ careers or is it pure coincidence that most of them didn’t act again after this movie?
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: Directed by Nicholas Webster. With John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon. The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
- (13K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Nicholas Webster
- 1966-11-10
Martian ruler Kimar (Leonard Hicks) is upset that the children of Mars are lazy and under the influence of too much pop culture from Earth. They are obsessed with the planet's television programs...
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- John Call
- Nicholas Webster
- Jalor Productions
- Santa Claus Conquers The Martianshas An Odd Connection to Charles Lindbergh.
- Santa Claus Conquers The Martianswas The Film Debut of Pia Zadora.
- The Alien Stun Guns in Santa Claus Conquers The Martians Were Name Brand Toys.
- That Guy in The Polar Bear Suit Later appeared in All The President’s Men.
- Santa Claus Conquers The Martians Shares A Bit of Footage with Dr. Strangelove.
- There’S A Spelling Error in Santa Claus Conquers The Martians’S Opening Credits.
Everything started out innocently enough. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was the brainchild of producer Paul L. Jacobson. Incidentally, this was the first—and only—movie that he ever produced. In the 1950s, Jacobson had worked as a unit manager on NBC’s iconic puppet show Howdy Doody. This experience gave him an insider’s look at the children’s ...
Long before making it big as a professional singer, Pia Zadora entered the world of film in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Here, her character is Girmar, a typical red planet girl who likes watching “Earth programs” with her brother on the family television set. This was just the beginning of Zadora’s cult movie career, as she’d also turn up in...
Halfway through the movie, a troop of unitard-wearing spacemen break into Santa’s workshop. Once there, the invaders freeze some innocent elves (and poor Mrs. Claus) in their tracks with special guns. Any kid growing up in the 1960s would have easily recognized these weapons as plastic “ray guns”that Marx Toy Co. mass produced throughout the decade...
“We weren’t about to get a real bear!” director Nicholas Webster said in retrospect. En route to warning Santa about the Martians, Billy and Betty encounter a huge polar bear, who briefly corners them. You needn’t be a genius to deduce that the beast is really a man in a cheap costume. Watch this clip closely and you may also notice that the person...
As the opening credits roll in Stanley Kubrick’s biting cold war comedy, we’re treated to some military stock footage of a plane refueling in midair. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians incorporates this exact same snippetat the 24:40 mark.
Ramsey Mostoller is listed as the picture’s “Custume Designer.” Naturally, this little typo did not go unnoticed when Santa Claus Conquers the Martians got the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment in 1991.
Dec 11, 2000 · Kimar (or King Martian) and Momar (or Mother Martian) have kidnapped Santa Claus to provide some much needed festive cheer for offspring Bomar and Girmar (work it out). However evil Voldar has...
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a low budget kid's movie from the early 60's. It has a reputation as one of the worst movies ever made. But, similar to most such famously trashed films, it actually turns out to be nowhere near the worst of the worst.
