#355 - Santo vs. The Monsters
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to the important cinema club. |
| 0:11.6 | Shocktober! |
| 0:12.5 | Oh! |
| 0:15.2 | That's the most illegal move in wrestling. |
| 0:18.1 | Oh, that's right. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking about El Santo, the Mexican wrestler who starred in over 50 films in the |
| 0:25.7 | Luccia Libra genre. |
| 0:27.1 | El Santo, don't you mean Samson? |
| 0:29.5 | That's right. |
| 0:30.3 | That is what he is also known as. |
| 0:31.9 | That's true. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah, because K. Gordon Murray imported four of the Santo movies and for some reason renamed him as Samson. I guess K. Gordon Murray imported four of the Santo movies and for some reason renamed him as Sampson. |
| 0:40.6 | I guess K. Gordon Murray, who by the way, was an American meat merchant, basically. |
| 0:45.0 | Don't you mean an American cinema legend? That's right. He, his, K. Gordon Murray's most |
| 0:49.5 | famous movie was maybe you've seen it, an MST 3K classic Santa Claus, the one where he fights the devil. |
| 0:55.5 | A Mexican film. That's right. So he imported a lot of Mexican stuff and showed it to, you know, |
| 1:01.0 | slapped it out there for matinee audiences. But El Santo was in over 50 Mexican wrestling movies, |
| 1:07.2 | only four of which I think were actually imported. That's it. Only four. Yeah, which is very surprising when you watch these movies and you go, how did no distributor go? |
| 1:15.8 | Well, we can package this as like TV fair, like cut it up, put it up for kids, sell it as kind of like a |
| 1:21.2 | Batman thing or, oh God, as they've been doing recently, redubbing them so they're more comedic. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, man. |
| 1:28.1 | Okay, more on that later. |
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