Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

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This is another of the three, long Popeye cartoons from the 1930's. The other 2 are Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor. This has more than the usual number of crazy comments by the characters and strange transformations by Olive Oyl. This is what made the Popeye cartoons more popular than Mickey Mouse back when they were both competing for playtime at the theaters.

The version available here has some Famous Studios splash screens and some really bad music at the very start, but they can be snipped off easily if you have Quicktime Pro, or some other video editing software because the rest is the original cartoon in all its intriguing glory. This is one to watch over and over because there is so much happening every second of the film, you just can't catch it all in one run-through. Savor this cartoon. It's vintage Popeye!