If it makes you feel any better, SANTA CLAUS also let down legions of children who went thinking it was a “real movie!” Producer K. Gordon Murray was a true schlockmeister and the king of peddling badly dubbed acquisitions to kiddie matinees. One of my earliest memories is Dad taking me to Murray’s RUMPELSTILTSKIN release in the 1970s. The movie was so bad there was an honest to God “kid riot” in the theater!