Santa Claus: The Movie

United States, United Kingdom

1985

108 Min

Color

2.20:1

English

Currently 2.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Ilya Salkind, Pierre Spengler

SCR David Newman, Leslie Newman

CAST Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Burgess Meredith, Judy Cornwell, Jeffrey Kramer, Christian Fitzpatrick, Carrie Kei Heim

This is the delightful story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves at the North Pole. There he is entrusted with special powers. But one of his elves goes to work for a greedy toy baron who wants to put Santa out of business.

Director

Jeannot Szwarc

Jeannot Szwarc (born November 21, 1939) is a French film and television director. Szwarc was born in Paris. He began working as a director in American television during the 1960s, in particular on Ironside. He has also directed episodes of: The Rockford Files, Kojak, Night Gallery, JAG, Bones, Numb3rs, Columbo, Heroes, and Fringe.His feature films include Bug (1975), Jaws 2 (1978), Somewhere in Time (1980), Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus: The Movie (1985). Since then, he has mainly directed television films and series. In 2003, Szwarc joined the crew of The WB/CW television series Smallville as a director. One of the major episodes he directed was “Homecoming”, the 200th episode of Smallville. He is a graduate of Harvard University. —Wikipedia