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Dec 12, 1980 · Popeye: Directed by Robert Altman. With Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley. The adventures of the famous sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.
Mar 27, 2024 · A new live-action Popeye movie is in the works almost 50 years after the first adaptation attempted in 1980. Casting details and timeline for the upcoming movie are still undisclosed. Production company Chernin Entertainment is behind the latest Popeye adaptation project.
Popeye is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Altman and produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions. It is based on E. C. Segar 's Popeye comics character. The script was written by Jules Feiffer, and stars Robin Williams [3] as Popeye the Sailor Man and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
Looking for the father (Ray Walston) who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and...
- Kids & Family, Comedy
After Popeye and Olive Oyl find an abandoned baby and name him Swee'pea, Popeye reunites with his father and discovers he has been kidnapped by Bluto, and sets out to stop Bluto who bids to get his revenge on Sweethaven by eating spinach, which gives him his incredible strength.
That gift for populating new places is one of the richest treasures in "Popeye," Altman's musical comedy. He takes one of the most artificial and limiting of art forms -- the comic strip -- and raises it to the level of high comedy and high spirits.
Popeye. Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye...
