| Hot Air Aces | |
| Number 163 | |
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Hot Air Aces is the 163rd Popeye theatrical cartoon, produced by Famous Studios and released on June 24, 1949.
Plot[]
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto owns a sort of rocket plane, while Popeye has a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. As Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden, Popeye passes him with some help from a lightning bolt. Bluto catches up again and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately there is a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's craft.
Notes[]
- This is the final Popeye cartoon that was produced in Polacolor. All subsequent entries would return to being produced in Technicolor, starting with A Balmy Swami.
External links[]
- Hot Air Aces at the Internet Movie Database