Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) - full transcript
Upon hearing of the evil deeds of the bandit Abu Hassan, Popeye, accompanied by Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy, flies to Arabia. Olive is kidnapped by Abu Hassan, who forces her to do the laundry for his Forty Thieves. Popeye sneaks into their hideout to rescue her, but finds himself outnumbered forty-one to one.
[MEN SHOUTING]
[SINGING]
You better lock up your doors today
‘Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin'
When I go ridin'
There's me and my 40 thieves
Your wives and children
And money too
I'll steal them from you
Before I'm through
I'm out gunnin'
So start in runnin'
From me and my 40 thieves
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
My gang's the roughest
But I'm the toughest
And that's no lie
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
You've got to hand it
To this bad bandit
‘Cause I'm a terrible guy
MEN [SINGING]:
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
OLIVE: Oh, Poppie, I got a surprise.
POPEYE: Oh, you have, huh?
Left guard, right tag, present arms, hip.
[HUMMING]
Vice versa.
As you were. Attention. Right up.
OLIVE:
Oh, if you aren't just too, too....
MAN [ON RADIO]:
Attention everybody. Alarm.
Abu Hassan the bandit
loots town and escapes.
Last seen headed thataway.
-Oh, whichaway?
-Thataway.
Oh! Whoa!
-Call to arms. All hands on deck.
OLIVE: Wait a minute. Wait for me.
POPEYE: Hey, this ain't nothing for
women. We're out hunting bandits.
Ceiling zero. Visibility zero.
[LAUGHS]
POPEYE: Maybe we better try
across the street, huh? Ho-ho-ho.
Skip the gutter.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS]
POPEYE:
Maybe I should trade this in.
Something is definitely wrong.
I'm right, it's wrong.
POPEYE: I wish there was a boardwalk
on this beach, huh?
If I had some bread,
I'd make a sandwich if I had a wich.
[WIMPY GASPS]
Food.
Oh.
A bitter disappointment.
Oh, Wimpy, would you care to join us,
young fellow, huh?
That's one of those invisible garages
that you can't see on the desert.
That's all it is.
[BELL RINGS]
POPEYE:
Rest.
[OLIVE AND WIMPY GROAN]
[BELL RINGS]
Come on, we've got
the green light with us now.
You know, I can go for a nice,
cold chocolate soda right now.
[OLIVE GROANS]
Popeye, Olive Oyl
has collapsed completely.
POPEYE: Whoa! Uh, keep
your vitality up, Olive, huh? That's it.
[WIMPY & OLIVE GROAN]
Oop.
Come on, Olive. We gotta save
little women and children from bandits.
I'll get you out of this desert some way.
I tank we go now.
[POPEYE HUMMING]
POPEYE: Whoa.
OLIVE: Oh.
Water. Oh, boy.
Come on, I'll revise you.
Here we are.
[OLIVE GASPING]
Here, I'll squelch your thirst for you.
This is on the house.
OLIVE:
Is that good. Oh.
I'll ask in here for bandits.
But first, we'll go get
a cup of coffee over here. Come on in.
OLIVE: Goody, goody, am I starved.
POPEYE: After you, Olive.
POPEYE:
Boy, this place is wide open.
[WIMPY SNIFFING]
WIMPY:
Ah.
-l wonder where everybody is around here?
-Yes, why don't they come over?
-Service.
-Yeah, that's what we want. Service.
Service.
Oh, there you are. Hey, what is this?
Double talk or something?
I didn't send out any laundry.
I can read reading, but I can't read right.
This writing is broken and rotten
if you happen to ask me, huh?
Hey, this Chinese is Greek to me.
Haven't you got something to eat?
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Oh, that's better, huh?
Bring me some desert
without any sand, will you please?
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
-Boy, am I hungry. Let's go into this.
-l can't wait till I eat.
MAN [ON RADIO]: Attention everybody.
Attention everybody.
Calling all towns and villages, beware.
[SINGING]
You better lock up your doors today
‘Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin'
When he comes ridin'
There's him and his 40 thieves
Your wives and children and money too
He'll steal them from you
Before he's through
He's out gunnin'
So start in runnin'
From him and his 40 thieves
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
In every village
He'll steal and pillage
There's none he'll spare
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
If he should spy you
Then we defy you
To cross his path if you dare
[MEN SHOUTING]
[SINGING]
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
When things get quiet
I start a riot as I go by
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
And you'll discover
They run to cover
‘Cause I'm a terrible guy
[MEN SHOUTING]
POPEYE:
Hey, what is--? Oh! Hey! Oh!
Hey, are you guys
the 40 thieves, huh? That's right.
MAN:
Hot dog.
[GROANS]
MAN:
Hot dog.
What? Another illusion?
I can't understand it.
[ALL SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Giddyup horsey. Hup! Hey!
Come on. Oop!
There's a big bag of wind
blowing through here.
HASSAN: Take your shirt.
-Shirt? Shirt!
Hey, give me back me shirt.
What's the big idea?
Stop in the name of the Coast Guard.
Come on, come a bit closer.
Who are you, huh?
Oh, you little tough guy, hey?
Do you think I make a good model, huh?
Take me home for $1.98, huh?
-Half the price, I'll tell you that.
-Who sent you?
Whoa!
Hey, your penknife's dent.
I'll straighten it out for you.
[GRUNTS]
-Aah!
-How's that?
You! I'll show you.
Hey, you're liable to hurt somebody
with that thing, huh? Whoa.
You got rivet-tism. I'll fix it for you.
Huh? Aah!
-Why, you-- Look, look, see.
-Yeah, I'm looking.
Hey, give me back me belt.
Pretty good for a fakir. Watch this one.
[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]
Abu hasn't got them anymore.
Ha-ha-ha!
You wanna make fool from me, huh?
-Ah, made you beat me to it.
-I'll show you.
-Huh? Whoa!
-Ha-ha-ha!
I'll hang him up shrimp.
[GRUNTING]
Ha, ha. You make fool
from me, hey? Ha, ha.
Huh? Aaarggh!
Oh. Hey, I'm burning the candles
at both hands.
Hay, let me out of this thing.
Huh?
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[HASSAN SHOUTING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
MEN:
Banana, banana, banana.
[GROANS]
MEN:
Barber. Barber. Barber.
MEN:
Teeth. Teeth. Teeth.
MEN:
Fish. Fish. Fish.
[MEN SHOUTING]
Well, I think I'll get out of here now.
Oh, I better stay.
[MEN SHOUTING]
[OLIVE SCREAMS]
[SINGING]
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
Popeye, they're taking me away
because they like me.
They're taking me away,
and I don't like it, I--
[SOBBING]
HASSAN [SINGING]:
Abu Hassan
Now make no error
I'm called the terror
Of every village and town, hmm
Hey, what am I hanging around here for?
Come on, let's go.
Oop! Ooh!
That's using your head.
Where did those guys go to?
Wait till I get ahold of that fella.
I'll show him a thing or two.
Taxi, taxi.
Follow that abracadabra Hassan guy,
will you? Come on.
Get going. They're way ahead of us.
Attaboy, show them your heels.
Wake up there.
What's the matter?
You asleep or something?
Hey, you got four flats.
No wonder you can't run.
Come on, there, camel cakes.
Step on it. Let's get going there.
What's the matter? Whoa.
I think you're running dry.
That's what's the matter with you.
[BELL RINGING]
Boy, you eat up an awful lot of gas
for only a two-cylinder.
That's enough for you, young fella.
Here we go.
[GRUNTING]
[SCATTING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
[POPEYE SCATTING]
Boy, we beat them
to the punch that time.
Come on, the whole 40 of you.
I'll take you on one at a time.
POPEYE: Come on.
-Open sesame. Hmm.
POPEYE:
Open what?
[SHOUTING]
HASSAN: Close sesame.
-Wait for me. Wait for me. Oh!
I wonder what that word was
he used when he opened this door.
Open, sissy. Open, Cecil.
Oh, that can't be it.
Oh, oh. It's giving way.
Oh, that was me that was giving way.
Oh. Well....
[GRUNTING]
It's a violation for not having no exit
that you can go into.
Oh, it's quite modernistic,
I'll tell you that right now.
I hope this isn't a one-way street.
Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
I gotta give all these jewels back
to the people. Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
I hope I see them before they see me.
Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
Ooh, what's that noise, huh?
Oh. Olive!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Ah. Mm.
Ah. Hmm.
Ah-ha. Mm.
Ah-ha. Hm-hm.
Hey! Hmm.
Must be thieves around here.
Oh, boy. Now is my chance.
Hey, you gotta give back all them jewels
to the people you took.
Oh. Oh, hello, Wimpy.
How did you get in here?
Hey. Hey, outside you.
Oh, this wash is getting heavier
and heavier, and I just--
Oh, Popeye!
My darling, my sweetheart.
Hey, out you go, out.
POPEYE:
Whoa!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Hey, what is this?
A wishing well or something?
I wish I was out of this place.
That's what I wish, huh? Oh.
Oh, just a little flounder, that's all.
Whoa!
A little snapper, that's all.
Whoa!
Hey, you're liable
to hurt your teeth on me.
Whoa! Oh, yeah?
[LAUGHING]
Boy, somebody's gonna be sorry for this.
[MUTTERING]
Open, says me.
[GRUNTING]
[HUMMING]
[YELLING]
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Go!
Oh, yeah?
Step right up, boys.
One at a time here.
Line up. Get right in line there.
Ho-ho-ho.
Aah! I'll get you!
Hey, how would you like to go
for a little ride? Here we go.
[SHOUTING IN FOREIGN DIALECT]
[MEN SHOUTING]
Oh, two, four, six, eight....
Forty.
[POPEYE SCATTING]
Here I am. Over here. Peekaboo.
-Come out here.
-l1 see you. Here I am.
Over here.
HASSAN:
Come out here. I'll beat you.
Oh, yeah? Liar.
[YELLING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.
Alley-oop!
[CHANTING]
Oh, yeah?
How does that strike you?
Ah, you, I'll--
Oh, yeah? Socko!
[GRUNTING]
[CHEERING]
[CHEERING]
[SINGING]
I may be a shorty
But I licked the 40
I'm Popeye the sailorman
[PIPE TOOTS]
[SINGING]
You better lock up your doors today
‘Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin'
When I go ridin'
There's me and my 40 thieves
Your wives and children
And money too
I'll steal them from you
Before I'm through
I'm out gunnin'
So start in runnin'
From me and my 40 thieves
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
My gang's the roughest
But I'm the toughest
And that's no lie
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
You've got to hand it
To this bad bandit
‘Cause I'm a terrible guy
MEN [SINGING]:
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
OLIVE: Oh, Poppie, I got a surprise.
POPEYE: Oh, you have, huh?
Left guard, right tag, present arms, hip.
[HUMMING]
Vice versa.
As you were. Attention. Right up.
OLIVE:
Oh, if you aren't just too, too....
MAN [ON RADIO]:
Attention everybody. Alarm.
Abu Hassan the bandit
loots town and escapes.
Last seen headed thataway.
-Oh, whichaway?
-Thataway.
Oh! Whoa!
-Call to arms. All hands on deck.
OLIVE: Wait a minute. Wait for me.
POPEYE: Hey, this ain't nothing for
women. We're out hunting bandits.
Ceiling zero. Visibility zero.
[LAUGHS]
POPEYE: Maybe we better try
across the street, huh? Ho-ho-ho.
Skip the gutter.
[ENGINE SPUTTERS]
POPEYE:
Maybe I should trade this in.
Something is definitely wrong.
I'm right, it's wrong.
POPEYE: I wish there was a boardwalk
on this beach, huh?
If I had some bread,
I'd make a sandwich if I had a wich.
[WIMPY GASPS]
Food.
Oh.
A bitter disappointment.
Oh, Wimpy, would you care to join us,
young fellow, huh?
That's one of those invisible garages
that you can't see on the desert.
That's all it is.
[BELL RINGS]
POPEYE:
Rest.
[OLIVE AND WIMPY GROAN]
[BELL RINGS]
Come on, we've got
the green light with us now.
You know, I can go for a nice,
cold chocolate soda right now.
[OLIVE GROANS]
Popeye, Olive Oyl
has collapsed completely.
POPEYE: Whoa! Uh, keep
your vitality up, Olive, huh? That's it.
[WIMPY & OLIVE GROAN]
Oop.
Come on, Olive. We gotta save
little women and children from bandits.
I'll get you out of this desert some way.
I tank we go now.
[POPEYE HUMMING]
POPEYE: Whoa.
OLIVE: Oh.
Water. Oh, boy.
Come on, I'll revise you.
Here we are.
[OLIVE GASPING]
Here, I'll squelch your thirst for you.
This is on the house.
OLIVE:
Is that good. Oh.
I'll ask in here for bandits.
But first, we'll go get
a cup of coffee over here. Come on in.
OLIVE: Goody, goody, am I starved.
POPEYE: After you, Olive.
POPEYE:
Boy, this place is wide open.
[WIMPY SNIFFING]
WIMPY:
Ah.
-l wonder where everybody is around here?
-Yes, why don't they come over?
-Service.
-Yeah, that's what we want. Service.
Service.
Oh, there you are. Hey, what is this?
Double talk or something?
I didn't send out any laundry.
I can read reading, but I can't read right.
This writing is broken and rotten
if you happen to ask me, huh?
Hey, this Chinese is Greek to me.
Haven't you got something to eat?
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Oh, that's better, huh?
Bring me some desert
without any sand, will you please?
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
-Boy, am I hungry. Let's go into this.
-l can't wait till I eat.
MAN [ON RADIO]: Attention everybody.
Attention everybody.
Calling all towns and villages, beware.
[SINGING]
You better lock up your doors today
‘Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin'
When he comes ridin'
There's him and his 40 thieves
Your wives and children and money too
He'll steal them from you
Before he's through
He's out gunnin'
So start in runnin'
From him and his 40 thieves
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
In every village
He'll steal and pillage
There's none he'll spare
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
If he should spy you
Then we defy you
To cross his path if you dare
[MEN SHOUTING]
[SINGING]
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
When things get quiet
I start a riot as I go by
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
And you'll discover
They run to cover
‘Cause I'm a terrible guy
[MEN SHOUTING]
POPEYE:
Hey, what is--? Oh! Hey! Oh!
Hey, are you guys
the 40 thieves, huh? That's right.
MAN:
Hot dog.
[GROANS]
MAN:
Hot dog.
What? Another illusion?
I can't understand it.
[ALL SHOUTING]
[GRUNTING]
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Giddyup horsey. Hup! Hey!
Come on. Oop!
There's a big bag of wind
blowing through here.
HASSAN: Take your shirt.
-Shirt? Shirt!
Hey, give me back me shirt.
What's the big idea?
Stop in the name of the Coast Guard.
Come on, come a bit closer.
Who are you, huh?
Oh, you little tough guy, hey?
Do you think I make a good model, huh?
Take me home for $1.98, huh?
-Half the price, I'll tell you that.
-Who sent you?
Whoa!
Hey, your penknife's dent.
I'll straighten it out for you.
[GRUNTS]
-Aah!
-How's that?
You! I'll show you.
Hey, you're liable to hurt somebody
with that thing, huh? Whoa.
You got rivet-tism. I'll fix it for you.
Huh? Aah!
-Why, you-- Look, look, see.
-Yeah, I'm looking.
Hey, give me back me belt.
Pretty good for a fakir. Watch this one.
[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]
Abu hasn't got them anymore.
Ha-ha-ha!
You wanna make fool from me, huh?
-Ah, made you beat me to it.
-I'll show you.
-Huh? Whoa!
-Ha-ha-ha!
I'll hang him up shrimp.
[GRUNTING]
Ha, ha. You make fool
from me, hey? Ha, ha.
Huh? Aaarggh!
Oh. Hey, I'm burning the candles
at both hands.
Hay, let me out of this thing.
Huh?
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[HASSAN SHOUTING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
MEN:
Banana, banana, banana.
[GROANS]
MEN:
Barber. Barber. Barber.
MEN:
Teeth. Teeth. Teeth.
MEN:
Fish. Fish. Fish.
[MEN SHOUTING]
Well, I think I'll get out of here now.
Oh, I better stay.
[MEN SHOUTING]
[OLIVE SCREAMS]
[SINGING]
Abu Hassan
Abu Hassan
Popeye, they're taking me away
because they like me.
They're taking me away,
and I don't like it, I--
[SOBBING]
HASSAN [SINGING]:
Abu Hassan
Now make no error
I'm called the terror
Of every village and town, hmm
Hey, what am I hanging around here for?
Come on, let's go.
Oop! Ooh!
That's using your head.
Where did those guys go to?
Wait till I get ahold of that fella.
I'll show him a thing or two.
Taxi, taxi.
Follow that abracadabra Hassan guy,
will you? Come on.
Get going. They're way ahead of us.
Attaboy, show them your heels.
Wake up there.
What's the matter?
You asleep or something?
Hey, you got four flats.
No wonder you can't run.
Come on, there, camel cakes.
Step on it. Let's get going there.
What's the matter? Whoa.
I think you're running dry.
That's what's the matter with you.
[BELL RINGING]
Boy, you eat up an awful lot of gas
for only a two-cylinder.
That's enough for you, young fella.
Here we go.
[GRUNTING]
[SCATTING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
[POPEYE SCATTING]
Boy, we beat them
to the punch that time.
Come on, the whole 40 of you.
I'll take you on one at a time.
POPEYE: Come on.
-Open sesame. Hmm.
POPEYE:
Open what?
[SHOUTING]
HASSAN: Close sesame.
-Wait for me. Wait for me. Oh!
I wonder what that word was
he used when he opened this door.
Open, sissy. Open, Cecil.
Oh, that can't be it.
Oh, oh. It's giving way.
Oh, that was me that was giving way.
Oh. Well....
[GRUNTING]
It's a violation for not having no exit
that you can go into.
Oh, it's quite modernistic,
I'll tell you that right now.
I hope this isn't a one-way street.
Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
I gotta give all these jewels back
to the people. Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
I hope I see them before they see me.
Tippy-toe, tippy-toe.
Ooh, what's that noise, huh?
Oh. Olive!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Ah. Mm.
Ah. Hmm.
Ah-ha. Mm.
Ah-ha. Hm-hm.
Hey! Hmm.
Must be thieves around here.
Oh, boy. Now is my chance.
Hey, you gotta give back all them jewels
to the people you took.
Oh. Oh, hello, Wimpy.
How did you get in here?
Hey. Hey, outside you.
Oh, this wash is getting heavier
and heavier, and I just--
Oh, Popeye!
My darling, my sweetheart.
Hey, out you go, out.
POPEYE:
Whoa!
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Hey, what is this?
A wishing well or something?
I wish I was out of this place.
That's what I wish, huh? Oh.
Oh, just a little flounder, that's all.
Whoa!
A little snapper, that's all.
Whoa!
Hey, you're liable
to hurt your teeth on me.
Whoa! Oh, yeah?
[LAUGHING]
Boy, somebody's gonna be sorry for this.
[MUTTERING]
Open, says me.
[GRUNTING]
[HUMMING]
[YELLING]
[SPEAKING FOREIGN DIALECT]
Go!
Oh, yeah?
Step right up, boys.
One at a time here.
Line up. Get right in line there.
Ho-ho-ho.
Aah! I'll get you!
Hey, how would you like to go
for a little ride? Here we go.
[SHOUTING IN FOREIGN DIALECT]
[MEN SHOUTING]
Oh, two, four, six, eight....
Forty.
[POPEYE SCATTING]
Here I am. Over here. Peekaboo.
-Come out here.
-l1 see you. Here I am.
Over here.
HASSAN:
Come out here. I'll beat you.
Oh, yeah? Liar.
[YELLING]
[MEN SHOUTING]
Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.
Alley-oop!
[CHANTING]
Oh, yeah?
How does that strike you?
Ah, you, I'll--
Oh, yeah? Socko!
[GRUNTING]
[CHEERING]
[CHEERING]
[SINGING]
I may be a shorty
But I licked the 40
I'm Popeye the sailorman
[PIPE TOOTS]