Popeye

35mm Archival Print

featuring

Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Dooley, Ray Walston,

“Shelley Duvall is perfect here as Olive Oyl, the role she was born to play” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Her spindly limbs and her what’s-that-about pout guide her through the rickety fishing village of Sweethaven. When Popeye (Robin Williams, in his movie star debut) washes ashore looking for his long-lost dad, his squinty eyes espy the Oyl of his dreams, but she’s about to be betrothed to the behemoth Bluto. Based on the original E. C. Segar strip, with a script by Jules Feiffer, Williams mumbles asides in gravelly eloquence, battles Bluto with impossible panache, and avoids, when possible, that food group known as leafy greens.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Jules Feiffer
Based On
  • characters created by E. C. Segar

Cinematographer
  • Giuseppe Rotunno
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 114 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • Paramount Pictures
Additional Info
  • 35mm print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive

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