Popeye

Popeye Movie Details:

Popeye Movie Cast & Characters:

• Robin Williams as Popeye
  • Jack Mercer as the voice of Popeye in the opening
• Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl
• Paul L. Smith as Bluto
  • John Wallace as Bluto’s singing voice
• Paul Dooley as J. Wellington Wimpy
• Richard Libertini as George W. Geezil
• Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy
• Donald Moffat as The Taxman
• MacIntyre Dixon as Cole Oyl
• Roberta Maxwell as Nana Oyl
• Donovan Scott as Castor Oyl
• Allan F. Nicholls as Rough House
• Wesley Ivan Hurt as Swee’Pea
• Bill Irwin as Ham Gravy
• Sharon Kinney as Cherry
• Peter Bray as Oxblood Oxheart
• Linda Hunt as Mrs. Oxheart
• Geoff Hoyle as Scoop
• Wayne Robson as Chizzelflint
• Klaus Voormann as Von Schnitzel
• Van Dyke Parks as Hoagy the Piano Player
• Dennis Franz as Spike
• Carlos Brown as Slug
• Robert Fortier as Bill Barnacle

Storyline:

Popeye, a squinty-eyed, corncob-pipe-smoking, spinach-hating, mumbling sailor man with overly muscular forearms partly the result of genetics, has just arrived in the port town of Sweethaven. He has been sailing the seven seas in search of his father who abandoned him when he was two. He is viewed suspiciously by many in town, with an exception of Wimpy, who will become friends with anyone who will buy him a hamburger. One who does view him suspiciously is Olive Oyl, the lanky, workboots-wearing daughter of his rooming-house landlords. Popeye and Olive gradually fall in love while they discover and decide to raise an abandoned infant boy whom Popeye names Swee’pea in honor of the town. Olive had been engaged to town bully Bluto, who rules Sweethaven on behalf of the mysterious Commodore, and Bluto does not take this sudden competition lying down: he uses Swee’pea to get Olive back. What happens in this situation in Popeye fighting for both Olive and Swee’pea is partly affected by discovering what happened to his father.

About Popeye Movie:

Popeye is an 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 as Popeye the Sailor Man and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.

Principal photography commenced on January 23, 1980. The film was shot in Malta. The elaborate Sweethaven set was constructed beyond what was needed for filming, adding to the cost and complexity of the production, along with a recording studio, editing facilities, and other buildings, including living quarters.

Filming wrapped on June 19, 1980, three weeks over schedule, due to bad weather. The set is a popular tourist attraction known as Popeye Village. Parish wrote that Robin Williams referred to this set as “Stalag Altman”.

The film premiered December 6, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, and opened in the rest of the United States the following week, distributed by Paramount, with Disney handling international distribution through Buena Vista International.

It grossed $6.3 million in its opening weekend, and $49.8 million worldwide, against a budget of $20 million. It received negative reviews from critics when it was first released but has received improved reviews over time.

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