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Popeye

Year:
Duration:
114 min | UK:97 min
Genres:
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
IMDB rate:
5.1
Director:
Robert Altman
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1980-12-12
Filming Locations: Anchor Bay, Malta
Earnings
Budget: $20,000,000
Gross: $49,823,057 (USA) Rentals $24,568,500 (USA)
Cast
Actor
Character
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt
Popeye
Robin Williams
Popeye
Shelley Duvall
Olive Oyl
Ray Walston
Poopdeck Pappy
Paul Dooley
Wimpy
Paul L. Smith
Bluto
Richard Libertini
Geezil
Donald Moffat
The Taxman
MacIntyre Dixon
Cole Oyl
Roberta Maxwell
Nana Oyl
Donovan Scott
Castor Oyl
Allan F. Nicholls
Rough House
Wesley Ivan Hurt
Swee'pea
Bill Irwin
Ham Gravy - the Old Boyfriend
Robert Fortier
Bill Barnacle - the Town Drunk
David McCharen
Harry Hotcash - the Gambler
Sharon Kinney
Cherry - His Moll
Peter Bray
Oxblood Oxheart - the Fighter
Geoff Hoyle
Scoop - the Reporter
Wayne Robson
Chizzelflint - the Pawnbroker
Larry Pisoni
Chico - the Dishwasher
Carlo Pellegrini
Swifty - the Cook
Susan Kingsley
La Verne - the Waitress
Michael Christensen
Splatz - the Janitor
Ray Cooper
The Preacher
Noel Parenti
Slick - the Milkman
Karen McCormick
Rosie - the Milkmaid
John E. Bristol
Bear - the Hermit
Julie Janney
Mena Walfleur - a Steinette
Patty Katz
Mina Walfleur - a Steinette
Diane Shaffer
Mona Walfleur - a Steinette
Nathalie Blossom
Blossom Walfleur - a Steinette
Dennis Franz
Spike - a Tough
Alan Autry
Slug - a Tough (as Carlos Brown)
Ned Dowd
Butch - a Tough
Hovey Burgess
Mort - a Tough
Roberto Messina
Gozo - a Tough
Pietro Torrisi
Bolo - a Tough
Margery Bond
Daisy - a Housewife
Judy Burgess
Petunia - a Housewife
Saundra MacDonald
Violet - a Housewife
Eve Knoller
Min - a Housewife
Peggy Pisoni
Pickelina - a Housewife
Barbara Zegler
Daphne - a Housewife
Paul Zegler
Mayor Stonefeller - the Official
Pamela Burrell
Mrs. Stonefeller
David Arkin
The Mailman
Klaus Voormann
Von Schnitzel - the Conductor
Doug Dillard
Clem - the Banjo Player
Van Dyke Parks
Hoagy - the Piano Player
Stan Wilson
Oscar - the Barber
Roberto Dell'Acqua
The Chimneysweep
Valerie Velardi
Cindy - the Drudge
Jack Mercer
Popeye - Animated Prologue
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Trivia
One of the storefronts in Sweethaven reads "O.G. WATTASNOZZLE", Professor O.G. Wottasnozzle was a character who appeared in the "Thimble Theater" comic "Sappo".
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This film ended Paramount's involvement in the "Popeye" franchise, having released the 1933-57 animated cartoons, and outsourced production on some of the 1960s TV cartoons from King Features. In 2012, Paramount licensed US/Canadian home video rights to much of its catalog to Warner Bros., and this film was among the titles that were licensed to them. Warner Bros. has owned the Fleischer/Famous "Popeye" cartoons outright since 1996.
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The producers wanted the role of Olive Oyl to be played by Gilda Radner. However, Robert Altman held out for Shelley Duvall.
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Goofs
The Paramount logo used at the opening was never used for any of the Paramount Popeye cartoons, though it is portrayed as being from a Popeye cartoon. Also, the opening credits sequence shown (doors of the wooden ship) was from the earlier Fleischer Studios cartoons, as opposed to the later Paramount cartoons.
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Just before Pappy starts singing "It's Not Easy Bein' Me" his pipe is in his mouth, then after he starts singing the pipe disappears, then near the end of the song when he's tied up it's in his hand.
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When Popeye is hit in the stomach by Oxblood Oxheart after Oxblood accidentally knocks out his mother, Popeye went rolling backwards, but in the next shot he's rolling forwards into the ropes.
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Quotes
Poopdeck Pappy: Stand to, you swab! You're casking shadows on Poopdeck Pappy. Pride of the Pacifiric. And father to the shark. Brother to the piranhaca. Cousin to the killer whale. And uncle to the octupussy.
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Poopdeck Pappy: Children. You give them everything they want. Give them candy and a lot of toys and what do you get in return? You get a lot of noise: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, my poppa's a mean old man.
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Popeye: Ya got a room for renk?
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Photos from cast
Linda Hunt
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