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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) was a Adventure - Animation Film directed by Dave Fleischer and Willard Bowsky and produced by Max Fleischer.

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[at a cafe]
Popeye: [bangs the table] SERVICE!
Olive Oyl: Yeah, that's what we want, service!
Popeye: [bangs the table] SERVICE!


Abu Hassan: Giddup horsy!
[charges at Popeye]
Popeye: [fists up] Come on!
Abu Hassan: Hat!
[steals Popeye's hat as he passes by him]
Popeye: [disoriented] There must be a gale wind blowing through here someplace...
Abu Hassan: Shirt!
[passes by Popeye again, and takes his shirt off him]
Popeye: Shirt?... SHIRT! Hey, gimme back me shirt! What's the big idea? Stop, in the name of the Coast Guard!
[grabs Abu Hassan, pulls him off his horse and gets back his hat and shirt]


Abu Hassan: Open sesame!
Popeye: [hidden, waiting for Abu Hassan] Open what?
[a secret door opens and Abu and his thieves go in]
Popeye: [rushing up] Wait for me! Wait for me!
Abu Hassan: Close sesame!
[the door shuts just as Popeye reaches it]
Popeye: I wonder what that word was he used when he opened this door? Open sissy! Open sayso!


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In Abu Hassan's cave, Popeye jokingly asks Wimpy "How did you get in here, young fella?" while the joke refers to Wimpy having been taken away by the bandits, it also refers to _Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)_(TV), the previous big-budget Popeye feature: Wimpy had wandered into Sindbad's home during a standoff, and a surprised Popeye asked him the same thing.
This was the second of the "Popeye Specials", a trilogy of "Popeye" feature-length films that were filmed in Technicolor.
The story is inspired by the story "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", but Ali Baba is only mentioned in the title and doesn't appear at all in the film. It could be argued, though, that Popeye takes Ali Baba's role in the tale.
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Also directed by Dave Fleischer




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Also released in 1937




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