Joseph just broke up with his girlfriend and is not taking it very well. He thinks she is plotting against him with their mutual psychiatrist. His dog is missing and he suspects the people at work might be behind it. Then there is the unshakable guilt over his past. It just might all be bearable, somehow possible to live through, if it weren't for those damned 'monsters' that keep trying to kill him. Through an allegorical 'fable' that is told in parallel with Joseph's struggle, we are left to decide for ourselves in the end, who is the crow and who is the wolf., was someone out to get Joseph, was it a stroke of bad luck, or was it all in his head?
The third (and final) of the Technicolor two-reel "Popeye Specials."
At 22 minutes, this is the longest theatrically released Popeye cartoon.
Popeye/Aladdin:
I never made love in Technicolor before.
Slave:
Salame, salame, baloney.
Popeye/Aladdin:
A wish?
[Under his breath]
Popeye/Aladdin:
Wish, wish, I can have a wish huh?
[Normal]
Popeye/Aladdin:
Well I wish I was out of here. Can you shows me the entrance to the exit?
Genie:
You bet.
[Makes a giant hole in the wall of the cave that has an escalator leading out]
Popeye/Aladdin:
Wow, an escalavator.
Genie:
I am the flame of the lamp. I come from the nowhere, I go to the noplace, und here I am.
Follows
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)
Version of
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Alex and the Wonderful Doo-Wah Lamp (1978)
Superfantagenio (1986)
Aladdin (1992/II) (V)
Aladdin (1992)
Aladdin (2000) (TV)
Featured in
Popular Science (1939/II)
Popeye's Premiere (1949)