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Popeye

Movie (1980)

Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip. The screenplay by Jules Feiffer was based directly on Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye the Sailor, a hardcover reprint collection of 1936-37 Segar strips published in 1971 by Woody Gelman's Nostalgia Press. Marketed with the tagline, "The sailor man with the spinach c ...

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Released:	Dec 12th, 1980
Budget:	$20,000,000.00
Revenue:	N/A

Popeye Main Cast

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Robin Williams
plays Popeye

Shelley Duvall
plays Olive Oyl

Ray Walston
plays Poopdeck Pappy

Paul Dooley
plays Wimpy

Paul L. Smith
plays Bluto

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Movie Trivia/Goofs

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Movie Goof (continuity error): The racing form that Wimpy puts back in his coat pocket winds up on the floor when Olive finds it and is later seen back in his hand (on the boat) while he's asking Sweet'pea about which horse to bet on.
The makeup appliances for Robin Williams' fake forearms were not ready when filming began, so in early shots, Popeye wears a long-sleeved raincoat to hide his normal-sized arms.
Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, and Hal Ashby were each originally slated to direct this movie.
A 200-250 foot breakwater also had to be constructed at the mouth of the harbor to prevent the set from getting flooded during high seas.

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