Fright to the Finish
| Fright to the Finish | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Isadore Sparber |
| Produced by | Seymour Kneitel Isadore Sparber |
| Written by | Jack Mercer |
| Starring | Jack Mercer Mae Questel Jackson Beck |
| Music by | Winston Sharples |
| Animation by | Robert Connavale Al Eugster William B. Pattengill |
| Studio | Famous Studios |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 27, 1954 |
| Running time | 6:00 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Greek Mirthology |
| Followed by | Private Eye Popeye |
| IMDb profile | |
Contents
Plot
On Halloween night, Olive Oyl regales Popeye and Bluto with ghost stories, but neither man is interested in the stories and each would like to get some alone time with Olive while seeing the other guy leave. When Popeye mentions that there are no such things as ghosts, Bluto sees a window of opportunity and leaves after pretending to be tired, then begins staging assorted Halloween gags (such as disguising himself as an otherwise-headless man with a jack-o-lantern head, then unleashing a full-size skeleton marionette and a "ghost" made out of a sheet over a balloon) to scare the wits out of Olive and prank Popeye. Bluto then frames Popeye for the spooky pranks and gets a misled Olive to kick Popeye out of her house.
Popeye is infuriated when he discovers Bluto, who returns to Olive's house to "protect" her from the "nasty hobgoblins", was the culprit behind the gags, so the sailor gets his revenge by using a jar of vanishing cream from Olive's bedroom vanity to turn himself invisible and play his own pranks on Bluto by pretending to be a ghost and scaring him out of the house. After Popeye turns visible again, Olive (who had also been scared by Popeye's prank, not knowing it was him) emerges from the ashtray stand she had been hiding in and, happy to see Popeye again, plants kisses all over his face in gratitude.
Trivia
- Fright to the Finish is one of the few Popeye the Sailor cartoons where Popeye uses his smarts, rather than eating spinach to gain his strength, to defeat Bluto, when he uses vanishing cream to trick his rival into thinking there are ghosts in Olive's house.
- This is a semi-remake of the 1939 Fleischer Studios Popeye short Ghosks Is the Bunk.
Production notes
- Fright to the Finish is one of a number of Famous Studios-produced Popeye the Sailor cartoons in the public domain in the United States.
External links
- Fright to the Finish public domain cartoon at the Internet Archive
