The Fistic Mystic (1946)
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes and gives parrot Popeye his spinach, which revives him. Bluto escapes with the rope trick and a flying carpet, but Popeye uses his pipe like a rocket to get aloft. Another battle, with Popeye using Bluto's own magic to turn Bluto into a canary. Popeye and Olive fly the carpet home, past the Statue of Liberty.
Director: Seymour Kneitel
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Harry Welch as Popeye (voice) |
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Mae Questel as Olive Oyl (voice) |
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Jackson Beck as Bluto (voice) |
| Directing | Seymour Kneitel | Director |
| Visual Effects | Graham Place | Animation Director |
| Writing | Isadore Klein | Story |
| Writing | Jack Ward | Story |
| Production | Seymour Kneitel | Producer |
| Production | Izzy Sparber | Producer |
| Production | Bill Tytla | Producer |
| Sound | Winston Sharples | Original Music Composer |
| Visual Effects | Graham Place | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nick Tafuri | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Jack Ehret | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Louis Zukor | Animation |