Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

About Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is the second of Fleischer Studios' three two-reel Popeye Color Specials, released in Technicolor by Paramount on November 26, 1937 and directed by Dave Fleischer, with Willard Bowsky as head animator. Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy take on the bandit Abu Hassan (voiced by Gus Wickie) and his forty thieves, with Jack Mercer as Popeye, Mae Questel as Olive and Lou Fleischer as Wimpy. Like the Sindbad special before it, it uses the Fleischers' three-dimensional model backgrounds to give the desert and the thieves' cave real depth. It airs on Starlite TV's Saturday Morning channel (CH 7).

About Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Quick facts

• Year: 1937
• Runtime: 18 minutes
• Type: Cartoon · Animation
• Sound: Original soundtrack