Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) on Netflix

Approved193717mAdventure Animation Comedy Family

At their Coast Guard post, Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy learn that the bandit Abu Hassan and his forty thieves have attacked a town in Arabia. They fly there to stop him.

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Plot summary

At a Coast Guard post, Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy learn that the bandit Abu Hassan and his forty thieves have attacked a town in Arabia. They set out in a flying boat to capture him, but the craft goes down over the Arabian desert. The three walk across the sand and come to the town, where the thieves raid as a matter of routine.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)

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Fleischer Studios made Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves with its experimental multiplane camera, and advertising for the short played up its 3-dimensional look to counter Disney's The Old Mill and the coming Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.