Starring David Huddleston as Santa Claus and Dudley Moore as Patch the Elf, the holiday favourite has everything needed for a festive film, including music, laughter and a whole host of A-listers.

By 1821, the city had seized much of Moore’s land through eminent domain. The Santa Claus he described in “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” was a direct result of this frustration ...

Santa isn’t the only one with a list ... that big 80s movie theme of ‘greed is good’ when an outcast elf (Dudley Moore) is co-opted into toy retail hell by a deliciously malicious John ...

Of course, not every Santa lives up to the magic and wonder ... and Leslie Newman indulge in every excess, including giving Dudley Moore free reign to mug his way through the film as an elf.

This illustration was produced for an 1893 edition of the 1823 poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. The American obsession with Santa Claus and the tradition ...

Over the past few weeks at KX News, we have discussed both the history of the figure who inspired Santa Claus and the many ...

The poem is called, ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas.’ Nowhwere in it does Moore call him Santa Claus. Clearly, we are talking about the same person.” In the 1860s, cartoonist Thomas Nast refined ...

Moore in 1823, there is little doubt that you’ll hear the true Santa Claus joyously exclaim “Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.” That’s guaranteed.

I AM SANTA CLAUS’S LEGITIMATE SON ... THE REINDEER CAME FROM CLEMENT MOORE’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS POEM, 1822, AND THE RED SUIT WAS INVENTED BY THE CARTOONIST THOMAS NAST IN 1881.

Forget the The Santa Clause sequels. But the original has a pretty distinctive ... And you really feel it being fractured when he’s right proper (unwittingly) screwed over by Dudley Moore’s elf Patch.