Spooky Swabs is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring Jack Mercer as Popeye and Mae Questel as Olive Oyl. Produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios (formerly Famous Studios) and directed by Isadore Sparber, it was released in 1957 and is the 230th and final cartoon in the Popeye series of theatrical cartoons released by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
The story involves Popeye and Olive on a life raft playing checkers. They see a ship adrift, thinking they are rescued. But the ship is haunted, deserted, and has a crew of ghosts with English accents (voiced by Mercer) who do not like the idea of returning to civilization, so they wreak havoc on Popeye and Olive. While Popeye is hiding in the ship's galley to avoid a mob of sword-wielding ghosts, he sees a jar of "ye king's spinach". When Popeye consumes the spinach, he becomes invisible, allowing him to punch the ghosts flat and Olive to sew them together to create a new sail. Popeye and Olive then sail off in the sunset as the cartoon ends - and the theatrical series with it.
Credits
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Present
- Copyright © MCMLVII by Vitaphone Corp. All Rights Reserved
- "Popeye the Sailor"
- A Warner Bros. Cartoon
- Technicolor®
- "Spooky Swabs"
- Story: Warren Foster
- Animation: Art Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy
- Layout: Hawley Pratt
- Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
- Film Editor: Treg Brown
- Voice Characterizations: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Jackson Beck
- Musical Direction: Winston Sharples
- Directed by: Friz Freleng
- Popeye the Sailor · "That's all Folks!" · A Warner Bros. Cartoon
Notes
- Final theatrical short appearance of Popeye and Olive Oyl.
- Because this cartoon is in the public domain in the United States, it has been made available on various DVD compilations of theatrical Popeye cartoons as well as streaming video from various web sites. A restored authorized DVD release is planned from Warner Home Video in the Popeye the Sailor series of DVD collections.
External links
- Spooky Swabs at the Internet Movie Database