How Do You Say "Ho Ho Ho" in Spanish?
All about Santa Claus (1959), a cheeseball Mexican holiday film redubbed by U.S. impersario K. Gordon Murray and unleashed upon generations of unsuspecting children. My pal Ron sent me a DVD of this recently. Hoo boy, what a trip. Santa lives in a palace atop a silver cloud, and whenever he's not spying on earth's kids, he's battling the devil for their souls! As if that wasn't chilling enough, Santa is portrayed as a maniac who enjoys sniffing a magic flower (made by Merlin, who also strangely lives in Santaland) that makes him disappear. And his reindeer are fiberglass! Wild sets,
weird dialogue, baffling musical numbers - this one has it all.
Posted by mhinrichs at December 23, 2003 10:33 AM
