Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, who also worked on the movie Supergirl in 1984 – a film that was met with a flood of negative reviews and bombed at the box office.

‘T was the night before Christmas, when all through the Balkans/Not a brain cell was stirring–not even the Salkinds’. Alexander and Ilya Salkind are clever producers who love to make movies about ...