Movies by Gus Wicke

Learn Polikeness

Learn Polikeness

Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.

I'm in the Army Now

I'm in the Army Now

Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.

The Spinach Overture

The Spinach Overture

Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach.

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).

Let's Celebrake

Let's Celebrake

Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth.

Fowl Play

Fowl Play

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

Let's Get Movin'

Let's Get Movin'

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

The Paneless Window Washer

The Paneless Window Washer

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.

Little Swee'pea

Little Swee'pea

Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.

Organ Grinder's Swing

Organ Grinder's Swing

Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion.

Protek the Weakerist

Protek the Weakerist

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.

Somewhere in Dreamland

Somewhere in Dreamland

A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive home. Their poor mother sets before them the only food she can: Stale bread. The children get ready for bed; In their dreams, visions of ice cream and donuts, candies and cakes fill their sleeping minds-- Will they awake to the same sorry situation?