Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

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

Slapstick Adventure Animation Comedy Family Short

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

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Jack Mercer

Popeye
(voice)
(uncredited)

Mae Questel

Olive Oyl
(voice)
(uncredited)

Lou Fleischer

Wimpy
(voice)
(uncredited)

Gus Wicke

Abu Hassan
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
This was the second of the "Popeye Color Specials", a trilogy of "Popeye" two-reel films that were filmed in Technicolor.

Goofs
Abu Hassan is only a head or two taller than Popeye. Abu enters a cave with a door just tall enough to admit himself and his mount, but seconds later Popeye comes up to the same door which now seems to be ten times the height of a man.

Quotes
Abu Hassan: [toying around] Look, look, look, see!
Popeye: Huh?
[With a laugh, Abu Hassan steals Popeye's belt]
Popeye: Hey, give me back me belt, I paid a good price for that!... Okay, watch this one. Abba-dabba-dabba!
[Popeye pulls out Abu Hassan's underwear]
Popeye: Abu Hassan got them anymore!
Abu Hassan: You want to make fool from me, eh?
Popeye: Ah, nature beat me to it!

Alternate versions
The Kids Klassics VHS release (1987) omits the scenes where Popeye and company first hear word of Abu's crimes and then journey in a seaplane and trudge over the desert to find the city.

Connections
Edited into Popeye Makes a Movie (1950)

Soundtracks
Abu Hassan
(uncredited)
Music by Vee Lawnhurst
Lyrics by Tot Seymour
Performed by Gus Wicke

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8/10

Another Popeye favorite.

In a vast Abrabian desert there's a group of thieves lead by Bruno(Ali Baba) and the 40 thieves. As they rob and steal everything in site. Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy run a coast guard post. When they got word to be on the watch for thieves. Which takes them on an air travel towards the Abrabian desert. After traveling for many days and nights, they finally made it to civilization which is one of the sites that Ali Baba has set his eyes on. And it's up to Popeye to fight and take down this aggressive thief.

Like "Popeye meets Sinbad" this one is worthy of being one of the best Popeye cartoons ever made.

It's original, it's humorous, and it has plenty of great moments with your spinach loving sailor.

Highly recommended to those who liked the Popeye meets Sinbad one.