René Cardona

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Mexican film director, actor, and producer (1905–1988), a central figure of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He directed the Christmas fantasy Santa Claus (1959), which found a second life in the United States through K. Gordon Murray's English-language dub.

Directed

6.81959·1h 35mPD

Fantasy, Family

René Cardona's wildly strange Mexican Christmas fantasy. Santa lives not at the North Pole but in a castle in the sky, where he watches Earth's children through a spyglass eye and fights off the demon Pitch, sent by Lucifer to turn the kids of the world bad — starting with a poor girl who just wants a doll. The English dub distributed by K. Gordon Murray became a staple of American holiday television and a Mystery Science Theater 3000 favorite. The film is in the public domain in the United States.

Fantasy · Family · Comedy

Santa Claus

1959 - Fantasy