321 - SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
(original; December 1964; NR; 80m)

a.k.a. SANTA CLAUS DEFEATS THE ALIENS (re-release)

Ad: "Santa Brings Christmas Fun to Mars!"
Ad: "Blast off for Mars...with Santa and a pair of Earth kids! Science-Fun-Fiction at its height!"
Ad: "Santa Claus saves Christmas for the Children of the World!"
Ad: "Santa Kidnapped by the Martians! Out-of-this-world fun 'n' action...
as two Earth Kids are whisked away with him to Mars!"
Ad: "SEE: The Martians Kidnap Santa! Santa's North Pole Workshop!
The Fantastic Martian Toy Factory! Earth Kids Meeting with Martian Kids!
Space-ship Journey from Earth to Mars! Santa Turn Mars-Robot Into a Mechanical Toy!"

Plot: Aliens kidnap Santie Claus and two Earth kids!

Exec: Joseph E. Levine
(408-Hercules Unchained; 502-Hercules)
Prod/Sto: Paul L. Jacobson
Assoc Prod/PMgr: Arnold Leeds
Dir: Nicholas Webster (Mission Mars)
Scr: Glenville Mareth
Cin: David Quaid
(Pretty Poison; Cops and Robbers)
Ed: William Henry (This Is Cinerama)
SFX: Haberstroh Studios
Cos: Ramsey Mostoller
(TV's Dark Shadows; Another World)
M/U: George Fiala
(513-The Brain That Wouldn't Die)
Asst Dir: Gerry Rich
ADir: Maurice Gordon (The Daydreamer)
Set: John K. Wright III
Martian Furniture: Fritz Hansen
Sound Mixer: Dennis Maitland (Mars Attacks; The Anderson Tapes)
Music Coor: Nick Tagg (prod coor/TV's The Practice)
Score: Milton DeLugg (The Gong Show Movie)
M/L: Milton DeLugg and Roy Alfred
Song: Hurray For Santa Claus

Santa Claus / John Call (The Anderson Tapes)
Kimar / Leonard Hicks (Guns of the Trees)
Voldar / Vincent Beck (Spy in the Green Hat; Bamboo Saucer)
Dropo / Bill McCutcheon (W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings)
Billy / Victor Stiles
Betty / Donna Conforti
Bomar / Christopher Month
Girmar / Pia Zadora*
Momar / Leila Martin (God Told Me To)
Hargo / Charles G. Renn
Rigna / James Cahill (Easy Money)
Andy Henderson / Ned Wertimer (TV's The Jeffersons)
Mrs. Claus / Doris Rich (TV's Naked City)
Von Green & Chochem / Carl Don (Romanoff and Juliet; Zotz)
Winky / Ivor Bodin
Stobo / Al Nesor (Li'l Abner)
Shim & Torg / Josip Elic (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Lomas / Jim Bishop (TV's Battleline)
children's announcer / Lin Thurmond
news announcer / Don Blair (No Way to Treat a Lady)
polar bear / Gene Lindsey (Cotton Comes to Harlem)
Santa's helper / Tony Ross
Santa's helper / Scott Aronesty
Santa's helper / Ronald Rotholz (prod/Canadian Bacon)
Santa's helper / Glenn Schaffer

Classic line: "All this trouble for a fat, little man in a red suit."

Trivia: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS reportedly was filmed in some abandoned airplane hangars near the Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island, New York.

In 1982, PIA ZADORA, child star of this movie, was made a laughing stock in Hollywood when she "won" a Golden Globe for Best New Female Star for her trashy performance in Butterfly. Rumor had it that her rich husband, many decades her senior, bought her the nomination and award through much publicity and possibly other methods. Hollywood cringed again when she and her husband bought the former estate of movie legends Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. She promptly started gutting and modernizing the historic home. Pia actually has a strong beautiful singing voice, but evidence of other talents have not surfaced in her career. She can possess a self-deprecating sense of humor as shown in roles in the movies Hairspray and Voyage of the Rock Aliens.

Last Updated: 6/21/1999