Santo in the film, Mujeres Vampiro ('Vampire Women') His best-known movie outside of Mexico is also considered one of his best, 1962's ( Santo vs. The Vampire Women), which was also featured in an episode of. [ ] In this movie, the production values were better, and there was an attempt at creating more of a mythos and background for Santo, as the last of a long line of superheroes.

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It was an enormous success at the box office. Only four of the 52 Santo films were ever dubbed into English, the other 48 being only available in Spanish. The English-dubbed Mexican films of that time period were imported to the United States through the efforts of who changed the name of Santo to 'Samson' for some of his releases. Most of Murray's imported Mexi-films went directly to late-night American TV. Santo's most financially successful film was The Mummies of Guanajuato (1970), which co-starred and.

[ ] Many Mexi-movie fans consider it to be the greatest luchador film ever made. [ ] The Santo film series inspired the production of similar series of movies starring other well-known luchadores such as Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Superzan and the Wrestling Women, among others. Santo even co-starred with Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras in several of his movies. Flagimation Serial Port. When Blue Demon invited Santo to co-star with him and Mil Mascaras in the 'Champions of Justice' movie trilogy, however, Santo was too busy making other films to participate.

[ ] By 1977, the masked wrestler film craze had practically died off, but Santo continued to appear in more films over the next few years. His last film was Fury of the Karate Experts, shot in Florida in 1982, the same year he retired from the ring. [ ] Seventeen years after Santo's death, his real-life son (known in Mexico as 'El Hijo del Santo') played the lead role in a brand new Santo movie called Infraterrestre (2001), which co-starred the famed Mexican wrestler The Blue Panther.

[ ] Other media appearances [ ]. El Santo removes his mask for the first and only time in his career, effectively bidding goodbye to his fans. He died a week after the airing of this program. Just over a year after his retirement (in late January 1984), El Santo was a guest on Contrapunto, a Mexican television program and, completely without warning, removed his mask just enough to expose his face, in effect bidding his fans goodbye. It is the only documented case of Santo ever removing his mask in public. Santo died from a heart attack (during a stage show he was putting on) on February 5, 1984, at 9:40 p.m., a week after his Contrapunto TV appearance.

In accordance with his wishes, he was buried wearing his famous silver mask. His funeral is considered one of the biggest in Mexican history as fans and friends flocked to see 'el Enmascarado de Plata' ( The Silver-Masked One) one last time. After his death, a statue of El Santo was erected in his home town of and other statues have been created since then. In wrestling [ ] • Finishing moves • La de a Caballo () • Tope de Cristo () • Signature moves • • Championships and accomplishments [ ] • • () • () • () - with • () • () • () • • • • () Luchas de Apuestas record [ ]. Gary Denness.

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Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre& honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. • ^ Various (2005). 'The Silver Masked-Man'. Lucha Libre>Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling.

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