Tops in the Big Top (1945)Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he ... See full summary » Director:Izzy Sparber |
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Title: Tops in the Big Top (1945)
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Jackson Beck | ... |
Bluto
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Jack Mercer | ... |
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Olive Oyl
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Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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16 March 1945 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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In "Tops in the Big Top" (1945), Bluto's a ringmaster at a circus, Popeye's a daredevil performer and Olive is Popeye's tutu-wearing partner. During the show, Bluto gets the idea to put the make on Olive and begins sabotaging Popeye's act—right in front of everybody in the sold-out crowd! When Popeye puts his head into a lion's mouth, Bluto quickly plops a steak on Popeye's head. The resultant struggle kills the lion and leaves a gruesome corpse, a rather startling act of brutality in a cartoon like this and one that prompts Olive to ask, "What's the idea of butchering the act?" When Bluto finally gets Olive where he wants her, he wraps her in a line and reels her up and down like a yo-yo from a high wire position, kissing her whenever she reaches him. Popeye is battling a cage of apes at this point and, after getting the spinach, leaves them in the familiar "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" monkey pose.
It's all beautifully animated and very colorful but, like most post-war, post-Fleischer Popeye cartoons, is never very funny.