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'''''Fright to the Finish''''' is a ''[[Popeye|Popeye the Sailor]]'' theatrical animated short produced by Famous Studios (the original animation unit of Paramount Pictures) and released on August 27, 1954.
== 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. The sailor 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 Popeye 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.
== 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 ==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150648/ ''Fright to the Finish''] at IMDb
* [https://archive.org/details/popeye_fright_to_the_finish ''Fright to the Finish'' public domain cartoon] at the Internet Archive
[[Category:Popeye the Sailor]]
== 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. The sailor 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 Popeye 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.
== 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 ==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150648/ ''Fright to the Finish''] at IMDb
* [https://archive.org/details/popeye_fright_to_the_finish ''Fright to the Finish'' public domain cartoon] at the Internet Archive
[[Category:Popeye the Sailor]]