Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves | |
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| Popeye Color Features series | |
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| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by |
Max Fleischer Adolph Zukor |
| Voices by |
Jack Mercer Mae Questel Gus Wickie Lou Fleischer |
| Music by |
Sammy Timberg Sammy Lerner Tot Seymour Vee Lawnhurst |
| Animation by |
Willard Bowsky George Germanetti Orestes Calpini |
| Studio | Fleischer Studios |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 26, 1937 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 17 min (two reels) |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Proteck the Weakerist |
| Followed by | Fowl Play |
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 26, 1937 by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, Inc. and directed by Dave Fleischer. Willard Bowsky was head animator, with musical supervision by Sammy Timberg. The voice of Popeye is performed by Jack Mercer, with additional voices by Mae Questel as Olive Oyl, Lou Fleischer as J. Wellington Wimpy and Gus Wickie as Abu Hassan. Popeye is enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and did not enlist in the Navy until 1941 in the Fleischer short The Mighty Navy.
Although Ali Baba does not appear in this film, the band of Forty Thieves do, led by Abu Hassan (Bluto playing a "role"). Popeye, Olive Oyl, and J. Wellington Wimpy hear of Hassan's attack on a town in Arabia and fly there to capture him but their plane crashes as they enter a desert in Arabia. After getting lost in the desert, the group happens upon the town where the Forty Thieves attack. The Thieves abduct Olive and Wimpy, and Abu Hassan leaves Popeye hanging from a chandelier after failing to win a battle of wits with him (during which, demonstrating a magic trick, Popeye relieves Hassan of his long underwear, remarking "Abu hasn't got 'em any more!"). Popeye manages to break free and takes a camel to Abu's secret cave, where, unable to remember the magic word of "open sesame!", he breaks in using his pipe as a blowtorch.
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