Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre aka Popeye 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 can!", the film is a musical. It starred Robin Willia...
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Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre aka Popeye 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 can!", the film is a musical. It starred Robin Williams (in his first film role) as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl. Popeye features hallmarks of director Robert Altman's style, including an ensemble cast, overlapping dialogue and cross-cutting to non-musical sequences during songs by Harry Nilsson.
Popeye was a joint production between Paramount Pictures (distributors / producers of the 1933-57 Popeye theatrical cartoons, which are now owned by Time Warner) and Walt Disney Productions (a former Popeye rival). It was released by Paramount in the USA and Buena Vista Distribution overseas....
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