Popeye vs. The Forty Thieves: A chaotic desert fever dream
Is it worth your time?
If you have twenty minutes and a craving for absolute visual bedlam, yes. It is pure, concentrated energy that makes modern animation look like it is moving through molasses. If you prefer your stories to be calm, logical, or even remotely grounded in physics, stay far away.
This isn't a movie y...
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves FAQ
The movie Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves was directed by Dave Fleischer.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves was released in the year 1937.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves has an IMDb rating of 7.7 out of 10.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is a movie from United States.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is categorised as Comedy, Family, Adventure, Short, Animation in the cult cinema archive at Dbcult.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves features Mae Questel, Jack Mercer, Gus Wicke, Lou Fleischer.
The screenplay for Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves was written by Jack Ward, Bill Turner, Izzy Sparber.
If you enjoy Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, you might also like A Fitting Gift (1920), Trail of the Rails (1920), Striking Models (1920), Lunatics in Politics (1920).
Yes, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title, known for its Comedy and Family qualities.
Popeye, Olive Oyl, and the ever-hungry Wimpy head into the desert to take on the legendary bandit Abu Hassan and his massive gang of thieves. It is a frantic, colorful, and surprisingly violent chase through treasure-filled caves.
Synopsis
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
Review Excerpt
"Is it worth your time?
If you have twenty minutes and a craving for absolute visual bedlam, yes. It is pure, concentrated energy that makes modern animation look like it is moving through molasses. If you prefer your stories to be calm, logical, or even remotely grounded in physics, stay far away.
This isn't a movie you sit down to analyze. It is a movie you survive. The Fleischer brothers were clearly working on a different frequency than everyone else.
The desert is a strange place
The backg..."
