Trivia

The movie was shot without live sound. While most of the actors mouthed or speak the script in English, in the American version all of the Italian actors, except for Rossano Brazzi, had their voices dubbed by someone else, so that their accents would not show up. Brazzi, who appeared in many American films, is the only Italian who speaks English with his native accent.

For many years, Rossano Brazzi maintained that he had performed his vocals in Al sur del Pacífico (1958), even though prominent baritone Giorgio Tozzi received on-screen credit as "the singing voice of Emile de Becque." Brazzi sang for himself in this movie, laying to rest any doubts as to his classical singing ability.

This is one of a handful of films distributed by Childhood Productions in 1966. Most of the English versions were dubbed by New York actors from foreign language features. Soundtrack albums with stories and songs from Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot (1955), Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein (1957), and Aschenputtel (1955) were released on RCA Camden Records. The English soundtracks of Childhood Productions' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, and The Bremen Town Musicians were released by Golden Records. All were narrated by Paul Tripp.

The film offers a whimsical account of how department store Santa Clauses came to be.

Director Rossano Brazzi passed away December 24, 1994.