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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)


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⭐Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) – So Bad It's Merry⭐

🍿Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) is a low-budget sci-fi Christmas oddity where Martian parents, worried about their joyless children, decide to kidnap Earth's greatest capitalist hero, Santa Claus. John Call plays a jolly, pipe-puffing Santa, with Leonard Hicks as conflicted Martian leader Kimar and Vincent Beck as the mustachioed villain Voldar. Bill McCutcheon steals scenes as Dropo, the lazy, giggling Martian who eventually becomes "Martian Santa." At the same time, a very young Pia Zadora appears as Girmar alongside child actors Victor Stiles and Donna Conforti. Ned Wertimer pops up as a TV reporter broadcasting from the North Pole, and Doris Rich offers an early screen version of Mrs. Claus. Shot in an old aircraft hangar on Long Island for about $200,000, this public-domain B-movie blends Cold War anxieties, clunky robots, ray guns made from toy air rifles, and a notoriously awful polar bear suit into a "so bad it's good" holiday sci-fi curio.🍿

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