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Dec 12, 1980 · A musical comedy adventure based on the comic strip character Popeye, who arrives in the seaside town of Sweethaven and falls in love with Olive Oyl. The film features songs, slapstick, and a mystery involving Popeye's father and a treasure.
- Robert Altman
- 256
- 2 min
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.
- Dalton Norman
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.
- $20 million
- Robert Evans
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...
- (1.4K)
- Robert Altman
- PG
- Robin Williams
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A musical comedy film based on the comic strip character Popeye, a sailor man who arrives in the seaside town of Sweethaven and falls in love with Olive Oyl. He also faces the bully Bluto, who kidnaps his father and tries to take over the town, and adopts a baby named Swee'pea.
Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from the E. C. Segar Thimble Theatre aka Popeye comic strip. It is a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions . Marketed with the taglines "The sailor man with the spinach can!" and "Haves a happy holiday wit' me an' Olive!", the film is a musical.