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Spinach Fer Britain
A German sub destroys a rowboat, a buoy, and another German sub. Meanwhile, Popeye, with a boat full of "spinach fer Britain", rams into the sub by accident. The sub cuts Popeye's ship in half with machine-gun fire, separating him from the spinach; it then sends a torpedo into the remains, which Popeye collects in a rowboat. Popeye spins the sub upside down, then ends up in a mine field.
| Release : | 1943 |
| Rating : | 6 |
| Studio : | Famous Studios, |
| Crew : | Director, Animation, |
| Cast : | Jack Mercer |
| Genre : | Animation |
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From my favorite movies..
Beautiful, moving film.
As Good As It Gets
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Spinach Fer Britain (1943) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Here's another WWII era Popeye short that has him on a personal mission to deliver cans of spinach for Britain. While crossing the ocean he runs into a German submarine.SPINACH FER Britain is pretty much what you'd expect out of a WWII short. You've got the great American Popeye having to go up against some nasty Germans and of course there's plenty of action along the way. The film is certainly patriotic and it's easy to see that movie crowds in 1943 would have loved it but to be honest there really aren't many laughs here and that keeps it from being much better. The animation is nice and the action is good though.
Well, this World War II cartoon makes fun of the "Nutzis," as Popeye calls the Nazis and has our Sailor Guy take a real beating before opening his can of spinach and taking charge.Prior to his triumph of delivering a small ship's worth of spinach to 10 Downing Street in Great Britain, Popeye and his ship get blown up five times! Yeah, the Germans in their submarines really give it it him big-time. Part of the problem was that Popeye thought all those holes in his ship were just made by a big woodpecker! Finally, he wakes up and states, "That was so woodpecker; it's a subterini!" Sometimes our hero sounds like Curly of the Three Stooges.The cartoon mocks the Germans and their use of the "Heil Hitler" salute. These are okay to be shown on TV today, but the anti-Japanese movies are banned, I have read.
Popeye was given a mission in delivering a shipment of spinach to Great Britain. The only problem is that there's a Nazi sub roaming around destroying everything in sight.And they've set their targets on Popeye's boat of spinach. He'll need to get past them and a field of mines in order to succeed in his mission.Will our American sailor be able to save the spinach. And what with England do without the spinach? It's a common WW2 cartoon. With a use of entertainment, but it's no where near being a classic like other Popeye and WW2 cartoons.And like other average WW2 cartoons, it coexists due to it having Nazis in it.
This short, one of a handful done by Paramount Famous Studios in black and white, is fairly effective propaganda and uses the black and white to best advantage with shadows and shadings. While the overall value of even a rowboat full of spinach versus, say, munitions, to Britain at that time and place is an open question, Popeye's patriotic fervor is not. An excellent use of Popeye for the war effort. Well worth tracking down. Recommended.
