Santa Claus (1959)

Santa Claus (sometimes also known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a 1959 Mexican fantasy film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. In the film, Santa works in outer space and does battle with a demon named Pitch, sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas by killing Santa and "making all the children of the Earth do evil".
Cast:
José Elías Moreno as Santa Claus [uncredited in English-language version]
Pulgarcito as Pedro [uncredited in English-language version]
José Luis Aguirre as Pitch (Precio) [uncredited in English-language version]
Armando Arriola as Merlin [uncredited in English-language version]
Lupita Quezadas as Lupita [uncredited in English-language version]
Antonio Díaz Conde hijo as Billy [uncredited in English-language version]
Ángel Di Stefani as Vulcan [uncredited in English-language version]
Ken Smith as the narrator [credited on-screen under the header "English Direction"]
Queta Lavat
The English version of Santa Claus features only limited production credits and no cast information.
Santa Claus was produced by Guillermo Calderón and filmed at Churubusco-Azteca Studios in Mexico. Its running time is reported as 94 minutes. This appears to be the running time of recent home video editions of the English dub. At least one brief scene was cut from the English edition, and further footage was removed from the individual prints as they aged and suffered damage. The original film was approximately three minutes longer than the version now seen in the United States. Santa Claus was filmed in Eastmancolor with a monaural soundtrack.