Jackson Beck

Jackson Beck

Born: July 23, 1912
Died: July 28, 2004
in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Jackson Beck was an American actor best known as the announcer on radio's The Adventures of Superman and the voice of Bluto in the Famous era Popeye theatrical shorts.

Movies for Jackson Beck...

3-D Rarities
Title: 3-D Rarities
Character: King Luna/Moon People (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
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Popeye 75th Anniversary Collection
Title: Popeye 75th Anniversary Collection
Character: Brutus / Bluto (Voice)
Released: April 27, 2004
Type: Movie
In honor of the squint-eyed seaman's 75th anniversary, this three DVD set is a no-frills packaging of Popeye the Sailor's color King Features cartoons of the sixties.
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G.I. Joe: The Movie
Title: G.I. Joe: The Movie
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 1, 1987
Type: Movie
G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.
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Radio Days
Title: Radio Days
Character: Radio Voice (voice)
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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Power
Title: Power
Character: The Voice (voice)
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
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G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
Title: G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 10, 1984
Type: Movie
G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics property. Using a laser core stolen from G.I.Joe, Cobra activates the Weather Dominator, an incredible weapon which controls the forces of Nature itself, Cobra Commander targets Washington for destruction, but the Joe team repels the attack and the Weather Dominator explodes into three parts setting off a chain reaction of natural disasters around the world. Can G.I.Joe recover the Weather Dominator in time to beat Cobra and save the world. It aired in 1984 and most of the 1984 and even some 1985 products are given plenty of screen time. Like the first miniseries, A Real American Hero, The Revenge of Cobra was written by Ron Friedman who created the series for television, and wrote all four miniseries.
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Title: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: TV
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a regular series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. Ron Friedman created the G.I. Joe animated series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. The fourth mini-series was intended to be a feature film, but due to production difficulties was released as a television mini-series.
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Title: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Character: Announcer (voice)
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: Movie
A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force must contend with COBRA who, after the successful theft of a special broadcast satellite now threaten the world with a teleportation machine called the M.A.S.S. Device. G.I. Joe tracks down the original designer who advises that the only way to counter the weapon is to build a M.A.S.S. Device of their own. However to power the device properly three rare catalytic elements are needed. Now it's a race around the world and against the clock as G.I. Joe and COBRA go M.A.S.S. to M.A.S.S.
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The Camps of Death
Title: The Camps of Death
Character: Narrator (segment "Death: A Nazi War Criminal Pays for His Crime") (voice) (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the subsequent nuremberg trials that publicized the horrors of Hitler's regime. Concentration camp footage combines with chilling POW interviews to graphically create the nazi nightmare that few could hope to survive. A powerful look at the third reich adn the horrifying fate of its enemies.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Narrator
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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Cry Uncle!
Title: Cry Uncle!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
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Take the Money and Run
Title: Take the Money and Run
Character: The Narrator
Released: August 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Title: The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure is a Filmation animated series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1968. Premiering on September 9, 1967, this 60-minute program included a series of six-minute adventures featuring various DC Comics superheroes.
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Title: The New Adventures of Superman
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: TV
The New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1970. The 68 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The Adventures of Superboy and other DC Comics superheroes.
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Title: The Adventures of Superboy
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: TV
The Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The 34 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The New Adventures of Superman other DC Comics superheroes. These adventures marked the animation debut of Superboy, as well as his teenage alter ego Clark Kent, who acted as the bespectacled, mild-mannered disguise for the young hero, Lana Lang, and Krypto the super-powered dog who would accompany his master on every dangerous mission. Other characters such as Pa and Ma Kent, foster parents of the Boy of Steel, and the town of Smallville were also faithfully recreated from comic book adventures. As a result of the production's budget, the show featured a great amount of stock animation as well as limited movement from the characters.
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Title: Tennessee Tuxedo
Released: September 28, 1963
Type: TV
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills. The title is a play on “tuxedo and tails” formal wear.
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Operation Ice-Tickle
Title: Operation Ice-Tickle
Character: Brutus / Admiral Peary (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes.
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Barbecue for Two
Title: Barbecue for Two
Character: Brutus
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.
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Title: King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
Character: King Leonardo (voice)
Released: October 15, 1960
Type: TV
King Leonardo and his Short Subjects is an animated cartoon series released in 1960 by Total Television, sponsored by General Mills.
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Title: Popeye the Sailor
Character: Brutus (voice)
Released: June 10, 1960
Type: TV
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.
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Trouble Date
Title: Trouble Date
Character: Military Doctor
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeepers knew as a "puppy." Jeepers helps Creepers look for his old girlfriend.
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The Boss Is Always Right
Title: The Boss Is Always Right
Character: Boss
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Wise guy Jeepers tries to "help" pal Creepers get a raise from his boss.
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Jeep Tale
Title: Jeep Tale
Character: Brutus
Released: January 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day, they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterward, the good farmer invites them over for more spinach.
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Popeye's Service Station
Title: Popeye's Service Station
Character: Brutus (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl.
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Popeye's Pizza Palace
Title: Popeye's Pizza Palace
Character: Brutus (voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye runs a pizza restaurant. Wimpy wants to pay him Tuesday for some hamburger pizzas, but Popeye says "No money, no pizzas! Cash on the line!" Wimpy would pay Brutus Tuesday if he gave him money for pizzas, but Popeye yells "No money, no pizzas!" Brutus tells Popeye to fix Wimpy some pizzas. Popeye makes a pizza making machine, and asks Brutus what kind of pizzas he wants. Brutus wants a tamale pizza, but Popeye says he never serves tamale pizzas. Brutus then rolls Popeye into some pizza dough, but Popeye eats some spinach pizza and turns Brutus into a pizza-bread man, then kicks him out. Popeye sees Wimpy eating pizza, and has him pay for it.
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Popeye and the Giant
Title: Popeye and the Giant
Character: Brutus (voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus notices him and puts growth pills on a hamburger. Wimpy then eats it, and it causes him to grow very big. Brutus takes the towering moocher to the circus, but they refuse to hire him. Wimpy seeks help from the Sea Hag, who puts him in a baby carriage. Popeye sees his friend's large size and tries to shrink him down by feeding him spinach, but it only makes him grow bigger. He gives Wimpy a hamburger, which turns him back to normal. Wimpy thanks Popeye and promises to pay him Tuesday for today's hamburger.
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Matinee Idol Popeye
Title: Matinee Idol Popeye
Character: Brutus (Voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production.
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Out of This Whirl
Title: Out of This Whirl
Character: TV Announcer (voice)
Released: November 13, 1959
Type: Movie
A young boy, obsessed with rockets and space, goes outside to play.
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Fit to Be Toyed
Title: Fit to Be Toyed
Character: J.G. (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
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Right Off the Bat
Title: Right Off the Bat
Character: Announcer
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A baseball team in desperate need for a star player drafts a horse.
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Stork Raving Mad
Title: Stork Raving Mad
Character: Audience Member
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. The stork has a rush delivery, but the baby isn't ready to settle down yet.
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Travelaffs
Title: Travelaffs
Character: Pig Businessman
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
A compilation of spot gags about tourists from earlier cartoons.
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Chew Chew Baby
Title: Chew Chew Baby
Character: Harry (voice)
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati.
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Jumping with Toy
Title: Jumping with Toy
Character: Fox (voice)
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey.
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Spooky Swabs
Title: Spooky Swabs
Character: Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.
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Spree Lunch
Title: Spree Lunch
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye.
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The Crystal Brawl
Title: The Crystal Brawl
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball.
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Nearlyweds
Title: Nearlyweds
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
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A Haul in One
Title: A Haul in One
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, then into a table; though he hardly seems to need it, Popeye still eats his spinach, then thrashes Bluto.
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I Don't Scare
Title: I Don't Scare
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th.
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Fright from Wrong
Title: Fright from Wrong
Character: Ghost #2 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The Ghostly Trio give Casper the Friendly Ghost a pill to make him as mean as they are.
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Parlez Vous Woo
Title: Parlez Vous Woo
Character: Bluto / The International (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1956
Type: Movie
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character.
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Assault and Flattery
Title: Assault and Flattery
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1956
Type: Movie
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocation. Popeye then tells his side.
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Out to Punch
Title: Out to Punch
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.
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Swab the Duck
Title: Swab the Duck
Character: Fox
Released: May 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship.
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Popeye for President
Title: Popeye for President
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them.
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A Job for a Gob
Title: A Job for a Gob
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede.
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Red White and Boo
Title: Red White and Boo
Character: Professor / Redcoat (screaming) (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the stone-age, Casper frightens cave-men and women. Robert Fulton's steamboat makes a successful first trip when Casper's ghostly form frightens it into action. Casper assists Paul Revere on his famous ride when Revere's horse, frightened by Casper, ceases to balk and breaks into a gallop. George Washington, crossing the Delaware River, is sped up by Casper's appearance, and Casper becomes a hero by besting the British Redcoats.
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Mister and Mistletoe
Title: Mister and Mistletoe
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive.
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Gift of Gag
Title: Gift of Gag
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
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Beaus Will Be Beaus
Title: Beaus Will Be Beaus
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...
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A Bicep Built for Two
Title: A Bicep Built for Two
Character: Herman / Big Muscular Cat
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives.
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Git Along Lil' Duckie
Title: Git Along Lil' Duckie
Character: Fox
Released: March 24, 1955
Type: Movie
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued.
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Penny Antics
Title: Penny Antics
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: March 11, 1955
Type: Movie
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
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Cookin' with Gags
Title: Cookin' with Gags
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up.
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Private Eye Popeye
Title: Private Eye Popeye
Character: Butler (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.
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Fright to the Finish
Title: Fright to the Finish
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1954
Type: Movie
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks.
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Greek Mirthology
Title: Greek Mirthology
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto).
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Candy Cabaret
Title: Candy Cabaret
Character: Butterscotch / Sourball (voice)
Released: June 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along.
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Hep taxi
Title: Hep taxi
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Title: Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').
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The Seapreme Court
Title: The Seapreme Court
Character: Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water.
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Boo Moon
Title: Boo Moon
Character: King Luna/Moon People
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invading Tree Men. On the 3D Bluray 3-D Rarities Volume 1, this appears as an extra in 3D.
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Floor Flusher
Title: Floor Flusher
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.
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Huey's Ducky Daddy
Title: Huey's Ducky Daddy
Character: Gilbert
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all kinds of trouble and ends up catching a whale.
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Firemen's Brawl
Title: Firemen's Brawl
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.
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Baby Wants a Battle
Title: Baby Wants a Battle
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants.
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Toreadorable
Title: Toreadorable
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him.
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Better Bait Than Never
Title: Better Bait Than Never
Character: Buzzy
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success.
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Starting from Hatch
Title: Starting from Hatch
Character: Fox
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him. In tears, his mother shows up with a milk bottle. Baby Huey is overjoyed: "I'm the luckiest duck in the world, I've got two mothers."
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Child Sockology
Title: Child Sockology
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.
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Ancient Fistory
Title: Ancient Fistory
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1953
Type: Movie
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach.
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Philharmaniacs
Title: Philharmaniacs
Character: Conductor Lion
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orchestra.
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Big Bad Sindbad
Title: Big Bad Sindbad
Character: Sindbad (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl.
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Popalong Popeye
Title: Popalong Popeye
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.
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Dizzy Dinosaurs
Title: Dizzy Dinosaurs
Character: Narrator / Caveman
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater.
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Friend or Phony
Title: Friend or Phony
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1952
Type: Movie
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows.
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Swimmer Take All
Title: Swimmer Take All
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye.
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Ghost of the Town
Title: Ghost of the Town
Character: Ghost Aircraft Leader / Walter Winchell (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1952
Type: Movie
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people.
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Lunch with a Punch
Title: Lunch with a Punch
Character: Bluto / Frog (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him.
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The Deep Boo Sea
Title: The Deep Boo Sea
Character: Ghost Schoolmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two build a raft together and sail out to to sea to search for pirate treasure... and find it.
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Snooze Reel
Title: Snooze Reel
Character: Narrator / Judge / Singing Cowboy
Released: January 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Screen Song with spot gags about newsreels (including Paramount's own newsreel division).
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Gag And Baggage
Title: Gag And Baggage
Character: Narrator / Desparado / Train Announcer / Pig / Bear
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about the history of the railroad.
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Scout Fellow
Title: Scout Fellow
Character: Fox
Released: December 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join. When a wolf shows up all the other ducks run away but Huey mistakes him for the scout master, and asks for his help. The wolf gives him several tasks to perform, all designed with Huey ending up on the wolf's dinner table, but dumb Huey turns the situations and the wolf is rendered harmless. The scouts make Huey an honorary member, and the battered wolf is used as a patrol flag.
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Let's Stalk Spinach
Title: Let's Stalk Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches.
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Casper Comes to Clown
Title: Casper Comes to Clown
Character: Ringmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a gorilla proves to be much scarier than any ghost.
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Party Smarty
Title: Party Smarty
Character: Fox
Released: August 2, 1951
Type: Movie
In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey.
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Boo Scout
Title: Boo Scout
Character: Scout Leader (voice)
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
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To Boo or Not to Boo
Title: To Boo or Not to Boo
Character: Narrator / Little Boy / Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People".
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Alpine for You
Title: Alpine for You
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone in a dark cave. Her screams bring Popeye, whose battle with Bluto carves a Mount Rushmore replica in a mountain-top. Bluto knocks Popeye into a snowbank, where a Saint Bernard dog revives him with spinach (after consulting a handy Popeye comic book). Popeye bashes Bluto into a mountain, forming a Paramount logo.
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Land of Lost Watches
Title: Land of Lost Watches
Character: Red Lantern / King Findall / Doctor
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Little Billy and Isabel catch Red Lantern, the Magic Fish. He takes them to the Land Of The Lost to meet King Find All, Rosita Wristwatch, and Wally Pocketwatch.
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Drippy Mississippi
Title: Drippy Mississippi
Character: Gambling Boat
Released: April 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about the Mississippi River as it runs from Minneapolis/St. Paul through Davenport and St. Louis down to New Orleans.
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Vacation with Play
Title: Vacation with Play
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive.
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One Quack Mind
Title: One Quack Mind
Character: Fox
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby sitter. Hue also turns out to be one tough duck when he discovers his new baby sitter likes to play rough. So does Huey, who proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the fox.
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The Farmer and the Belle
Title: The Farmer and the Belle
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs. Popeye feeds a hen a little spinach, and she produces a mountain of eggs, which eventually end up all over Bluto. Bluto drops an anvil on Popeye, then goes after Olive against her wishes, chasing her into a succession of haystacks (where he finds a needle!). The chicken feeds Popeye his spinach, and he triumphs, sending Bluto into the pigpen (where the pigs won't have anything to do with him).
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Quick on the Vigor
Title: Quick on the Vigor
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged.
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Popeye Makes a Movie
Title: Popeye Makes a Movie
Character: Abu Hassan (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach.
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Gobs of Fun
Title: Gobs of Fun
Character: Mouse Captain
Released: July 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The captain of a ship's crew, a mouse, goes to the bar to pick up his men. After forcing the initially reluctant sailors onboard, they set sail and hit the (literal) high seas. Spots gags abound such as a cook dumping the garbage overboard into a clam's mouth, the clam getting his revenge by climbing onboard and spraying the garbage back at the cook, and a running gag involving a bear who is splashed by his bucket of water each time he throws it overboard. Finally, we are invited to sing along to the old sea tune, "Strike Up the Band".
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Jitterbug Jive
Title: Jitterbug Jive
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh in a very old-fashioned way. A zoot-suited Popeye stops him, and gets the girl.
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Beach Peach
Title: Beach Peach
Character: Lifeguard (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on.
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Gym Jam
Title: Gym Jam
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off.
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How Green Is My Spinach
Title: How Green Is My Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop.
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Land of the Lost Jewels
Title: Land of the Lost Jewels
Character: Red Lantern
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater with him to the Land of the Lost, where missing items can be found again. They meet King Find All, a walrus, and a singing cricket (Hoppy-Go-Lucky) that used to be the girl's pin. He's deemed to be a special jewel (since he's made of emerald) and is brought to the jewel storage room, despite his wishes to be in the Land of the Toys...
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Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Title: Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller.
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Leprechauns Gold
Title: Leprechauns Gold
Character: Narrator / Leprechaun Leader (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend.
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Silly Hillbilly
Title: Silly Hillbilly
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on.
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Tar with a Star
Title: Tar with a Star
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners.
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A Balmy Swami
Title: A Balmy Swami
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save her. Popeye's efforts are hampered by Bluto's magic, like the instant brick wall he builds. Bluto awakens her, and she attacks him and then panics. Popeye throws her a hook to save her; it does, but it crashes through a window, bringing a piano (!) out with it. The piano crashes on the building, and Olive is catapulted by the strings to a distant platform. Another race to save her. As Popeye is trapped in a plummeting elevator, he breaks out the spinach.
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Hot Air Aces
Title: Hot Air Aces
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightning bolt, passes him. Bluto catches up again, and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately, there's a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's plane.
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The Ski's the Limit
Title: The Ski's the Limit
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 23, 1949
Type: Movie
A combination cartoon/travelogue set in the Swiss Alps, with a tuneful sight-seeing tour of Switzerland thrown in, before the bounding-ball comes bouncing along and asks the theatre audience to follow it in singing the ever-popular "I Miss My Swiss Miss, My Swiss Miss Misses Me." Some of the theatre singers may have actually thrown in a yodel or two.
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Lumberjack and Jill
Title: Lumberjack and Jill
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
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Popeye's Premiere
Title: Popeye's Premiere
Character: Evil Vizier (voice)
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
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Symphony in Spinach
Title: Symphony in Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
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Robin Hood-Winked
Title: Robin Hood-Winked
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect taxes and falls for Olive.
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Roaring Wheels
Title: Roaring Wheels
Character: Narrator
Released: October 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Documentary on racing, from miniatures to odd terrain cars.
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Snow Place Like Home
Title: Snow Place Like Home
Character: Pierre Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive.
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Spinach vs Hamburgers
Title: Spinach vs Hamburgers
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
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A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Title: A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Character: Sheik (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth. He carries her away to his luxurious tent. Popeye finally finishes up and notices Olive is gone; he chases after her, but his camel suffers a blowout. Meanwhile, the sheik has been wooing Olive. Popeye arrives, and after briefly sharing the hookah with the sheik, tries to leave with Olive. The sheik will have none of it; he wraps Popeye like a mummy and fires him with a cannon into the sphinx. Fortuitously, there's a can of spinach inside, and Popeye saves the day.
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Sing or Swim
Title: Sing or Swim
Character: Moon
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The world famous Coney Island in New York City, which got it's start in the 1840's is here included in Famous Studios, "Screen Song" series. The featured song is, By the Beautiful Sea, written in 1914, and is of the "follow the bouncing ball" variety. The song follows the slight story of animal characters(among them an elephant and mouse playing catch with a medicine ball)having fun at the beach.
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Wigwam Whoopee
Title: Wigwam Whoopee
Character: Chief (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
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Little Brown Jug
Title: Little Brown Jug
Character: Piggy (voice)
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
An animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing-a-long of the title song.
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Base Brawl
Title: Base Brawl
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.
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Cat O' Nine Ails
Title: Cat O' Nine Ails
Character: Buzzy
Released: January 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Buzzy the Crow pretends to be a doctor checking on Sam the hypochondriac cat. Negative exists at UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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All's Fair at the Fair
Title: All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger.
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Safari So Good
Title: Safari So Good
Character: Jungle Man (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across a Tarzan-like man (Bluto), and she and he are immediately smitten with one another. Popeye catches wind of this and isn't about to stand for the jungle hunk muscling in on his girl. Let the fighting and one-upmanship begin.
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Wotta Knight
Title: Wotta Knight
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: October 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
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Popeye and the Pirates
Title: Popeye and the Pirates
Character: Pierre (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover.
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The Royal Four-Flusher
Title: The Royal Four-Flusher
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks.
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Is Everybody Listening?
Title: Is Everybody Listening?
Character: Narrator
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A documentary about the 82% of US citizens that listen to the radio for their entertainment, news and sport.
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The Wee Men
Title: The Wee Men
Character: Narrator / Leprechauns (voice)
Released: August 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend says that if anyone succeeds in capturing one of the wee men, the little person must then lead them to where the gold is hidden. Young Patrick, on his 121st birthday---that is correct, his 121st birthday---is permitted to do a good deed, and delivers new shoes to the homes of the poor. But, alas, the town miser spots him and succeeds in capturing him. Patrick leads the miser to the spot of the gold, a tree stump, and promises, as the legend says, not to remove it while the old miser rushes home for a shovel. But, when he returns he now finds hundreds of tree stumps, and is foiled. Young Patrick is welcomed back home with a birthday cake...with 121 candles.
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Cad and Caddy
Title: Cad and Caddy
Character: Golfer (voice)
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Lulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he promised her one for caddying for him.
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Madhattan Island
Title: Madhattan Island
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1947
Type: Movie
A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
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I'll Be Skiing Ya
Title: I'll Be Skiing Ya
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
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The Enchanted Square
Title: The Enchanted Square
Character: Officer Flanagan (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music.
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Abusement Park
Title: Abusement Park
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.
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Germany - Handle with Care!
Title: Germany - Handle with Care!
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
This "March of Time" entry examines the many problems, both human and economic, that faced the Allies in their respective zones of Germany -- USA, England and Russia -- following the end of World War II, and the Allied occupation of what was left of the country following the Nazi reign of Adolf Hitler. The Cold War issues had not yet fully surfaced, so this entry, with fleeting glances into each Zone of the time, traced what economic recovery had been made by the end of 1946, and how the average German citizen of 1946 was living...or getting by.
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The Island Fling
Title: The Island Fling
Character: Bluto / Friday (voice)
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft.
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The Fistic Mystic
Title: The Fistic Mystic
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: November 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes and gives parrot Popeye his spinach, which revives him. Bluto escapes with the rope trick and a flying carpet, but Popeye uses his pipe like a rocket to get aloft. Another battle, with Popeye using Bluto's own magic to turn Bluto into a canary. Popeye and Olive fly the carpet home, past the Statue of Liberty.
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Rodeo Romeo
Title: Rodeo Romeo
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: August 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time. Bluto's had enough, and he substitutes loco weed for Popeye's spinach, then challenges him to throw the bull. Popeye's fried brain sees the bull as a beautiful woman; he tries to dance with it. The bull throws Popeye against the box where Bluto is now sitting and throws the remaining loco weed into Bluto's open mouth; he sees Olive as a bull and grabs her. He tries to brand her; her cries of help arouse Popeye, who pulls out a fresh can of spinach and goes to work.
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Rocket to Mars
Title: Rocket to Mars
Character: Martian Leader (voice)
Released: August 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).
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Peep in the Deep
Title: Peep in the Deep
Character: Bluto / Popeye (voice)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.
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Klondike Casanova
Title: Klondike Casanova
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive.
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Service with a Guile
Title: Service with a Guile
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious trouble. Not that Popeye doesn't do some amazing things to save the car; he carries it, atop a hoist, to the top of a very tall building under construction, then outruns it as it falls, and catches it, unscathed; the car is demolished, however, when Bluto snatches the hoist away and lets the car fall the remaining couple of meters onto Popeye. Spinach time: He manages to rebuild the car, apparently good as new, in the time it takes the admiral to walk back from the cigar store, so Bluto shoves him away to take credit. But the car falls to pieces when it's started, and the admiral puts Bluto on rust-scraping duty as Popeye and Olive float by in a rowboat.
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House Tricks?
Title: House Tricks?
Character: Bluto (voice)
Released: March 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.
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Cheese Burglar
Title: Cheese Burglar
Character: Dog (voice)
Released: February 21, 1946
Type: Movie
While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse lives. They are very good friends indeed, are work together to make Herman's life a hard life. Herman tries to break up their friendship, and divert their attention from guarding the cheese in the refrigerator, and almost succeeds but they make up in time to prevent Herman getting the cheese. They give chase and Herman takes refuge in a jug of wine.
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Bargain Counter Attack
Title: Bargain Counter Attack
Character: Section Manager (voice)
Released: January 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a noahic flood in the store.
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Man's Pest Friend
Title: Man's Pest Friend
Character: Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Little Lulu and her dog, Pal, are out walking and playing, but soon run into all manner of problems and situations trying to keep the dog-catcher from catching Pal and sending him to the dog-pound.
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Mess Production
Title: Mess Production
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.
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Snap Happy
Title: Snap Happy
Character: Photographer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Little Lulu pesters a photographer to take her picture.
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For Better or Nurse
Title: For Better or Nurse
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1945
Type: Movie
The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so they scheme to hurt themselves enough to get hospitalized, with no luck. Bluto gets a wall to fall on him, but stands in the window. Popeye tries to get run over by a steam-roller, but a street cleaner saves him. Bluto dives off a skyscraper - into a huge pile of mattresses. Popeye stands in a naval gunnery range, but the gunners miss the target. Bluto taunts a bull, but stands next to a billboard of an attractive cow, which distracts the bull. Popeye crashes a plane, but the ambulance crew rescues the plane. The boys compete to get run over by a train, but punch each other off the tracks just as the train arrives. Finally, Popeye forces a can of spinach down Bluto's throat and gets a pounding. That lands him in the hospital but not Olive's; they failed to notice the sign: "Cat and Dog Hospital." They start fighting like cats and dogs, and get hauled off to the looney bin.
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Daffydilly Daddy
Title: Daffydilly Daddy
Character: Lulu's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again.
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Shape Ahoy
Title: Shape Ahoy
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. They both pretend to ignore her, but woo her behind each other's back.
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Tops in the Big Top
Title: Tops in the Big Top
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach.
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Magica-Lulu
Title: Magica-Lulu
Character: Magician (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show but she finds trouble. Watch for the gag when Lulu is mistaken as a rabbit in the magician's hat.
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Pop-Pie a la Mode
Title: Pop-Pie a la Mode
Character: Cannibal Leader (voice)
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by cannibals.
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Gabriel Churchkitten
Title: Gabriel Churchkitten
Character: Pastor (voice)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
This cartoon concerns the efforts of a kitten, Gabriel, and a mouse, Peter, who apparently live in peaceful coexistence in the home of Parson Peaseporridge, to get the Parson to wake up at night and feed them their milk and cheese, respectively. The Parson repeatedly rises up, in a fit of sleepwalking, and reaches the cupboard, while muttering the need to feed the "churchkitten" and "churchmouse," but then proceeds to drink the milk and eat the cheese himself. Eventually, the kitten and mouse enlist the aid of a neighboring puppy named Trumpet to achieve their goal.
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She-Sick Sailors
Title: She-Sick Sailors
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach.
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Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Title: Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.
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It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
Title: It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
Character: Lulu's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant. Seeing how the grasshopper wasted his money, and could count on no help from the ant, Lulu promises her father that he won't waste her money any more. But the temptation of the local candy store grows too strong, and Lulu buys all of the sweets that she can get hold of in order to "save up for the winter."
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Puppet Love
Title: Puppet Love
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Narrator
Released: December 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Technicolor 2-reeler on the US Coast Guard.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Narrator / Police Chief / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1943
Type: Movie
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.
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The Underground World
Title: The Underground World
Character: Narrator / Henderson (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core".
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Show-Business at War
Title: Show-Business at War
Character: Self (voice)
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Jungle Drums
Title: Jungle Drums
Character: German Commander (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.
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The Mummy Strikes
Title: The Mummy Strikes
Character: Narrator / Professor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman.
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Destruction Inc.
Title: Destruction Inc.
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
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Eleventh Hour
Title: Eleventh Hour
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
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Showdown
Title: Showdown
Character: Boss (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
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Japoteurs
Title: Japoteurs
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
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Volcano
Title: Volcano
Character: Narrator #2 / Officer / Professor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.
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Electric Earthquake
Title: Electric Earthquake
Character: Perry White / Indian Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!
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The Magnetic Telescope
Title: The Magnetic Telescope
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.
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The Bulleteers
Title: The Bulleteers
Character: Bulleteer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!
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The Arctic Giant
Title: The Arctic Giant
Character: Perry White (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!
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Billion Dollar Limited
Title: Billion Dollar Limited
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!
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The Mechanical Monsters
Title: The Mechanical Monsters
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.
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The Movies March On
Title: The Movies March On
Character: Narrator
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.
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Inside Nazi Germany
Title: Inside Nazi Germany
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.