Director: Isadore Sparber
Release Date: September 4, 1942
Stars: Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl
Rating: ★
Review:
Popeye and Bluto are on a battle cruiser stationed somewhere in the South Seas.
There they meet a ‘princess Alona’ (Olive Oyl in a sarong). Her parrot warns the two suitors that if the princess get’s harmed, the volcano will erupt. In the end all turns out to be just a dream.
In this cartoon the comedy is mostly silent, and princess Alona doesn’t speak at all. Unfortunately, Jack Mercer’s jabbers are absent, too, and they are certainly missed. The result is the weakest Popeye cartoon in years.
Watch ‘Alona on the Sarong Seas’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This Popeye film No. 110
To the previous Popeye film: You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap
To the next Popeye film: A Hull of a Mess
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October 27, 2020 at 20:38
George M Peters
Very amusing sidelight of World War II! Popeye and Bluto were on.board a ahip.assigned to the South Pacific. They happened to see a very pretty native girl named Princess Alona, portrayed by Olive Oyl, were smitten by her.(Little wonder, as millions of young men were called away from homes, wives, mothers, girl friends, sisters, nieces, etc.to defeat enemies.)On shore leave, Popeye and Bluto pursued her; she wore a sarong (native dress). She and Popeye were at the end seemingly Alone-a, but it turned out to be dream. All I all, a delightful sidelight of the War.