Santa Claus the Movie Promo CJOH 1989

Promo for a showing of Santa Claus the Movie on CJOH in the late 1980s

Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 Christmas fantasy-adventure film starring Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, and David Huddleston. It depicts the origin of Santa Claus (played by Huddleston), and his modern-day adventure to save one of his elves (Moore) who has been manipulated by an unscrupulous toy company executive (Lithgow). It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and was the last major fantasy film produced by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind.

Released in North America by TriStar Pictures on November 27, 1985, Santa Claus: The Movie was a financial failure and received mostly negative reviews from critics.