This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their new New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. Mother and daughter hide in the "panic room," a secret room designed for just such a purpose, but still end up fighting for their lives...
1 win
&
7 nominations
Popeye's theme song was never intended to be used in any movie. It was a quick sketch done by Sam Lerner to show Dave Fleisher how the song he intended to write could go. Instead, Fleischer snatched up the song, paid him for it, and used it in the completed musical.
Popeye's appearance is based on that of a fighter named Francis "Rocky" Fiegel whom his creator, Elzie Segar, used to know. Because of this, a tombstone was put on his hitherto unmarked grave in 1996. Segar paid Fiegel a small fee for the use of his likeness, as he was still alive when Popeye first appeared.
To ensure that people watched this short, it was marketed as a Betty Boop vehicle and Betty makes a small cameo appearance in the movie; however, the main character is actually Popeye.
Olive Oyl and Wimpy are based on real people, too. Wimpy was based on Segar's former newspaper editor, Bill Schuschert, who was a great hamburger lover, and on an underhanded fight promoter whom Segar used to know. Olive Oyl was based on a woman Segar knew who was tall and wore high-bottom boots like Olive's and wore her hair in a bun just like Olive. She appeared in the strip long before Popeye did (her original beau was a cowboy named Ham Gravy), back when it was still called THIMBLE THEATER, long before Popeye came on the scene.
Bluto was called Brutus in the original comic strip owing to a dispute over where he had appeared first - the comic strip or the cartoons. Only recently did the name "Bluto" reappear in the comic strip (the character first appeared in the comic strip in the early nineteen thirties).
References
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932)
Referenced in
Fury (1936)
Hospitaliky (1937)
Porky's Garden (1937)
Porky's Hero Agency (1937)
Porky's Spring Planting (1938)
The Major Lied 'Til Dawn (1938)
Porky's Poor Fish (1940)
Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
- After Daffy is injured after losing his fight he says "boy, what I wouldn't give for a can of spinach right now"
She-Sick Sailors (1944)
"Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures: Snow White and the Motor City Dwarfs/Don't Touch That Dial (#2.4)" (1988)
- A Smurf that looks like Popeye appears
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991) (VG)
The Aristocrats (2005)
- Reference is made to to popeyes big arms
Featured in
Adventures of Popeye (1935)
Spoofed in
Dian zhi gong fu gan chian chan (1978)