The credited writers of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" have no other known credits.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Donny Ferguson Retweeted

MOVIE MYSTERY: The credited writers of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Glenville Mareth and Paul L. Jacobson, have no other known credits. So I'm guessing they're fake names. But who actually wrote this movie?

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Maybe they were ashamed of that movie

and don't want their names associated with it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I don't know why. I've never seen a better movie about Santa Claus and Martians. NT

[keithbvadu2]

3. When your career starts at the pinnacle, there is no need to go on.

When your career starts at the pinnacle, there is no need to go on.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. This is the answer. Why didn't I think of that? NT

[exboyfil]

4. Twilight Zone's Mr. Garrity and the Graves

written by Rod Serling from a story idea by Mike Korologos bears a striking similarity to Philip Jose Farmer's short story Uproar in Acheron.

Korologos has only that one fiction writing credit. Farmer believed that Serling plagiarized his story (along with some others from other authors).

Korologos was a newspaper reporter.

[Chin music]

5. Watched it w my family years ago....

fun for the holiday I guess. The copy was real bad. I'm getting the feeling it wasn't a 'copy' issue.
The Plan 9 From Outer Space....of the holiday season....no offense to Plan 9.

[rsdsharp]

8. We have a copy on a five disc set of Christmas shows --

mostly old TV shows. The copy we have is terrible as well, over and above the execrable writing and acting.

It was Pia Zador’s film debut. I just discovered that she and I share a birth date. 🤪

[Chin music]

9. Nice.

Pia Zadora? Or Pia Zador?

[rsdsharp]

10. Zadora. I'm sure her thousands of fan (no s) will be clamoring for

my head for misspelling her name.

[Chin music]

12. I hope I didn't sound that way.

Some old campy movie actors used to bastardize names sometimes to confuse the ticket buyers. Heh heh. I wondered if this was one of those times.
Pia Zadoras first film? You learn something new at DU everyday.

[rsdsharp]

13. Sorry. I was trying to be funny. I think that's the only film of hers that I've ever seen.

I I first saw it at age 10 when it was originally released. My small town movie theater always had a kids Christmas movie annually. Lots of JuJuBees and empty popcorn boxes flew around during those shows!

[Chin music]

15. Ho ho ho......

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Is that one of those dollar store DVDs?

They can be difficult to watch. "Someone held up a video camera in the back of a movie theater" levels of resolution.

[rsdsharp]

14. No, we bought it on Amazon. Most of the stuff is technically bad.

A lot of it is 1950s shows, and they are Kinescopes — film taken of TV screens. The Santa/Martian movie isn’t that good. It’s blurry, and the color is off.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Today they live in a bunker and write talking points for the Republican Party.

[Staph]

16. Could they be related to Alan Smithee?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee