Popeye (1980 film)


Popeye is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It is a liveaction film adaptation of E. C. Segars Popeye comic strip and stars Robin Williams as Popeye the Sailor Man and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.

Popeye, a sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven SweethavenAn Anthem while searching for his longlost father. He is immediately feared by the townsfolk simply because he is a stranger Blow Me Down, and is accosted by a greedy taxman. He rents a room at the Oyl familys boarding house where the Oyls daughter, Olive, is preparing for her engagement party. Her hand is promised to Captain Bluto, a powerful, perpetually angry bully who runs the town in the name of the mysterious Commodore. In the morning, Popeye visits the local diner for breakfast Everything Is Food and demonstrates his strength as he brawls with a gang of provocative ruffians who give him and the other customers a hard time.On the night of the engagement party, Bluto and the townsfolk arrive at the Oyls home. Olive, however, sneaks out of the house, after discovering that the only attribute she can report for her bullying fianc is size Hes Large. She encounters Popeye, who failed to fit in with the townsfolk at the party. The two eventually come across an abandoned baby in a basket. Popeye adopts the child, naming him SweePea, and the two return to the Oyls home. Bluto, however, has grown increasingly furious with Olives absence. He realizes that she means to break off the engagement. He eventually flies into a rage and destroys the house Im Mean. When he sees Popeye and Olive with SweePea, Bluto beats Popeye into submission and declares heavy taxation for the Oyls. ........

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