Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

JohnHowardReid Voices: Jack Mercer (Popeye), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl), Gus Wickie (Bluto as Abul Hassan).Director: DAVE FLEISCHER. Screenplay: Jack Mercer, Dan Gordon, Cal Howard, Tedd Pierce, Isidore Sparber. Adapted from a tale in The Arabian Nights. Popeye, Bluto and Olive Oyl based on characters created by Elzie Segar. Photographed in Color by Technicolor by Charles Schettler. Head animator: Willard Bowsky. Animators: George Germanetti, Orestes Calpini. Music: Sammy Timberg. Songs by Sammy Timberg, Sammy Lerner, Vee Lawnhurst, Tot Seymour. Producer: Max Fleischer. Copyright 26 November 1937 by Paramount Pictures, Inc. Presented by Adolph Zukor. U.S. release: 26 November 1937. 2 reels. 19 minutes. SYNOPSIS: When their plane crash-lands in the desert, Popeye, Wimpy and Olive Oyl tangle with Ali Baba and his band of cut-throats.COMMENT: Once again, as in Sindbad, Bluto not only makes the innings in this one but also gets to render another delightfully self-congratulatory song, this time joined by a rousing chorus of sold-out followers. True, Popeye does enjoy a few jests before tangling with the outlaw band and bowling them out with his usual spinach-induced strongarm stuff; but, aside from the satisfying closing shot in which the camera inventively tracks from right to left (instead of the customary left to right), it's the images of Bluto and his superfast-moving gang we remember rather than Popeye waiting for a desert traffic signal or energetically pumping water into a parched Wimpy and Olive Oyl.

Paularoc I was fortunate to see an excellent print of this. Popeyes is in pursuit of the rogue Abu Hassan, and Olive Oyl and Wimpy are along for the ride. Alas, their plane crashes in the Arabian Desert and the trio must trek across the desert getting more hungry and thirsty as they go. As to be expected, it is Wimpy who sees a mirage of sumptuous food. My favorite line of the film happens during this trek. Popeyes looks around and all he can see is sand and mumbles "I'd make a sandwich if I had a which." Abu Hassan captures Olive Oyl and Wimpy, but not to worry, Popeeye lays low not only the forty thieves but Abu (who could be Bluto's twin) - and all this to John Philip Sousa sounding music. Popeye's under his breath comments are always a highlight of these cartoons.

yet As others have written, the restored episode is a beauty to behold, with complete titles and fabulous Technicolor! With the classic voices of Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Gus Wickie, Popeye takes an action-packed and chatty romp through the desert with the usual cast of suspects.My favorite gags are the thieves' chants during the raid, the horses' answer in the chorus and of course Popeye's reply to Abu Hassan: "Ahh, nature beat me to it!" I'm still waiting to use that last one in conversation ;)By now you must have guessed my favorite episode is "Sindbad." But that's for another comment.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) I love Fleischer's Popeye better than all the other versions of the character. This cartoon is my favorite out of the "Arabian Nights" trilogy of featurettes filmed in color, and also "Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp" too.I love the desert scene where the three heroes Popeye,Olive Oyl and Wimpy trudge through the sand and Wimpy sees a feast which was really a mirage; also the "tank roll" part too. I also love the scene at the cafe, when Popeye snatches Abu Hassen/Bluto's underwear from him...without removing his clothes! One last scene that I love is when Olive give Popeye a kiss while pacing on guard duty back and forth on the dock. So that makes it four parts I love and overall, it's another Popeye classic to favor.