THE BOOTLEG FILES: “SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS”

By Phil Hall | December 17, 2004

BOOTLEG FILES 059: “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (1964 Yuletide sci-fi).

LAST SEEN: Playing online at MovieFlix.com.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: Bootlegged versions from companies offering public domain titles.

REASON FOR DISAPPEARANCE: Lack of copyright protection and a wealth of bad publicity.

CHANCES OF SEEING A DVD RELEASE: Currently being digitally denigrated on an MST3K DVD release.

BOOTLEG OPPORTUNITIES: Ho Ho Ho!

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V.E.G. says:

December 10, 2012 at 4:36 pm

By the way, no joke, Ned Wertimer appears in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians! Wertimer would become world-famous as the Ralph the Doorman on The Jeffersons!

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