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Santo vs. los Villanos del Ring

Santo vs. the Villains of the Ring
Santo vs. the Ring Villains

Mexico 1968
produced by
Alfonso Rosas Priego for Producciones Cinematograficas
directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna
starring Santo, Francisco Jambrina, Wolf Ruvinskis, Silvia Fournier, Graciela Lara, Eduardo Bonada, Jean Safont, Dick Medrano, Ray Mendoza, Beny Galán, Ignacio Gómez (as El Nazi), Ham Lee, Ramiro Orci, Consuelo Frank, Carlos Nieto, Roberto Araya, Marco Antonio Arzate, Enrique Cardenas
story by Rafael García Travesi, Mario García Camberos, screenplay by Rafael García Travesi, music by Antonio Díaz Conde

El Santo

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Santo's goddaughter Maria Elena (Silvia Fournier) has just inherited a vast fortune from her estranged grandmother (Consuelo Frank), and of course this is enough to earn fake spiritualist Francisco Iglesias' envy (Francisco Jambrina), so he devises a plan that includes inviting the girl to a séance to call upon her grandmother - for which Iglesias actually has the old woman's body robbed from her grave -, who then tells her to donate half her fortune to Iglesias. But of course, Iglesias is no fool, he knows Santo will watch over Maria Elena, so he cooks up a plot to have him killed, first fair and square in the ring, but when that doesn't work he hires some wrestlers to beat him to a pulp wherever they can find him. Fortunately though, Santo's best friends Rudolfo (Wolf Ruvinskis) - also Maria Elena's fiancé - and Fernando (Eduardo Bonada) are always around to help out, and before long other wrestlers join Santo's ranks as well, always enough to chase away Iglesias' gang. However, all these attacks make Santo think, and after Iglesias has successfully staged his séance and pretty much persuaded Maria Elena to make that donation, Santo presents her with Iglesias' police files that prove he has tried the séance scam before. Santo and his friends get into another brawl with Iglesias' wrestlers, and this time someone has the good sense to pull a gun and shoot Santo dead. His death is kept out of the papers though, and yet Iglesias shows up on Maria Elena's doorstep offering a séance to contact Santo, with the fact that he knows about his death as proof of his authenticity - and Maria Elena falls for it. And really, Iglesias manages to make Santo - actually another wrestler (Beni Galán) in Santo's silver mask - appear ... but then the real Santo, who has only faked his own death, and his friends show up and finally give Iglesias and company the good thrashing they deserve ...

 

One of the duller Santo pictures for sure, mostly because the action just consists of one battle royale-style brawl after the next, and these scenes are not very inventively or excitingly filmed. On top of this, the plot fails to be really engaging and is far-fetched to the point where it defies reason - just not in the fun way one has come to love from Santo movies. So if you're not a Santo completist like me, it's ok to give this one a pass.

 

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