Cast: Jack Mercer (Popeye, the sailor man), Jackson Beck (Bluto).
Director: SEYMOUR KNEITEL. Story: Isadore Klein. Animators: Tom Johnson, William Henning. Scenics: Lloyd Hallock, Jr. Music: Winston Sharples. Color by Technicolor. A "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon. RCA Sound System.
Copyright 27 January 1950 by Paramount Pictures Inc. A Famous Studios Production, by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc. 7 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Bluto is sick and tired of being defeated time and time again by Popeye in picture after picture - in "Spinach Sockeroo" and "Strictly from Spinach", for instance. So he carries out a devilish plan to poison the world's entire crop of that particular vegetable.
COMMENT: By the humble standards of the Kneitel cartoons, this is a superior entry. True, it's not particularly funny, but it has its moments of ingenuity. I particularly like the personified gas cloud gulping up the spinach from the truck, I liked the "in" joke with Clark Kent reading a newspaper on TV, I liked the kids cheering when they heard the news that the ghastly vegie had been exterminated, and I loved the appeal to a real live cinema audience - notice Tom Ewell seated immediately behind the helpful lad - from a suddenly vociferous commentator.
If you don't find this one at least mildly diverting, better give the whole Sparber/Kneitel/Tytla lot a miss.
I mean, who but a gourmet could possibly resist a Popeye with no Olive Oyl?
Director: SEYMOUR KNEITEL. Story: Isadore Klein. Animators: Tom Johnson, William Henning. Scenics: Lloyd Hallock, Jr. Music: Winston Sharples. Color by Technicolor. A "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon. RCA Sound System.
Copyright 27 January 1950 by Paramount Pictures Inc. A Famous Studios Production, by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc. 7 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Bluto is sick and tired of being defeated time and time again by Popeye in picture after picture - in "Spinach Sockeroo" and "Strictly from Spinach", for instance. So he carries out a devilish plan to poison the world's entire crop of that particular vegetable.
COMMENT: By the humble standards of the Kneitel cartoons, this is a superior entry. True, it's not particularly funny, but it has its moments of ingenuity. I particularly like the personified gas cloud gulping up the spinach from the truck, I liked the "in" joke with Clark Kent reading a newspaper on TV, I liked the kids cheering when they heard the news that the ghastly vegie had been exterminated, and I loved the appeal to a real live cinema audience - notice Tom Ewell seated immediately behind the helpful lad - from a suddenly vociferous commentator.
If you don't find this one at least mildly diverting, better give the whole Sparber/Kneitel/Tytla lot a miss.
I mean, who but a gourmet could possibly resist a Popeye with no Olive Oyl?