Sunday, December 25, 2011

Spending Christmas South of the Border with K. Gordon Murray Part II :: Santa Claus & His Helpers (1964)


(November, 1964)

After the box-office success of his completely demented Mexican matinee-only import, Santa Claus -- where Rene Cardona apparently read a book about Salvador Dali, ate some bad Figgy Pudding, and then downed nine pints of Mad Dog before hammering out a script, K. Gordon Murray quickly commissioned three more features to be released with several other imported Fairy Tales. Santa Claus and His Helpers was the first. Here, to make them mesh better, Murray added his own versions of Stinky Skunk and the Big Bad Wolf from the lavish Little Red Riding Hood series in an attempt at some form of continuity with the second feature, The Queen's Swordsman.

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