Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)

Director:

Dave Fleischer
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Release Date:

26 November 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Short

Plot:

Upon hearing of the evil deeds of the bandit Abu Hassan, Popeye, accompanied by Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy...

Plot Keywords:

Popeye | Sahara Desert | Camel | Restaurant | Traffic Light

Cast

Lou Fleischer	...	Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer	...	Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Mae Questel	...	Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Gus Wickie	...	Abu Hassan (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Dave Fleischer
Willard Bowsky		(animation director) (uncredited)

Produced by
Max Fleischer	....	producer

Original Music by
Vee Lawnhurst
Samuel Lerner		(as Sammy Lerner)
Tot Seymour
Sammy Timberg

Animation Department
Willard Bowsky	....	animator
Orestes Calpini	....	animator
George Germanetti	....	animator

Music Department
Lou Fleischer	....	music supervisor (uncredited)
Sammy Timberg	....	musical director (uncredited)

Other crew
Adolph Zukor	....	presenter

Production Companies

• Fleischer Studios

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1937) (USA) (theatrical)
• Digital Disc Entertainment (1997) (USA) (DVD)
• Hollydan Works (2008) (Yugoslavia) (DVD)
• Passport International Entertainment (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (video)
• Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Weton Wesgram (19??) (Netherlands) (VHS)

Other Companies

• King Features Syndicate  by arrangement with
• Screen Time Images  audio restoration
• Screen Time Images  film restoration
• Segar  by arrangement with

Runtime:

17 min | Argentina:19 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | USA:Approved (certificate #1503)

Company:

Fleischer Studios

Trivia:

The second of the Technicolor two-reel "Popeye Specials".

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the battle scene with Abu Hassan and the forty thieves, the dialogue, the sound effects, and partially the music are out of sync with the animation. This was rectified on the DVD release of "Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1."

Quotes:

Popeye: Open, says me!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Muppet Babies: Six to Eight Weeks (#6.3)" (1989)

Soundtrack:

Abu Hassan

My favorite of Popeye's "Arabian Nights" trilogy

I love Fleischer's Popeye better than all the other versions of the character, and this is one of my favorite out of the "Arabian Nights" trilogy of featurettes in color; "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; I also love 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! Oh! and one last scene that love is when Olive give Popeye a kiss while pacing on guard duty back and forth on the dock.