From Wikipedia- Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo or in English The Saint, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for "masked professional wrestler"), actor and folk hero. He is one of the most famous and iconic Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports". His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in lucha films and comic books telling fictionalized stories of El Santo fighting for justice.[2][3] He starred or co-starred in at least 54 movies between 1958 and 1982.[4]
El Santo made a lot of fun movies, but also made a lot of boring ones as well. Most of his black and white movies are pretty good, and some are even better. When I moved to San Diego in 1990, one of the local Mexican channels aired his movies weekly for about two years, and I amassed a large quantity of them on VHS tape. Now you can get quite a few of these movies on either Blu Ray or DVD, complete with subtitles.
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