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Customers Wanted (1939)

Approved | | Animation, Short, Comedy | 27 January 1939 (USA)
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Popeye and Bluto compete in their penny arcades for Wimpy's business.

Directors:

Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel (uncredited)

Stars:

Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
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Cast

Uncredited cast:
Pinto Colvig ... Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Margie Hines Margie Hines ... Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer ... Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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Storyline

Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing arcades show clips featuring each of them, with well over half this short thus recycled. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>

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popeye | penny arcade | male female relationship | love triangle | love | See All (8) »

Genres:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family | Romance

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Approved

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 January 1939 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Kundschaft gesucht See more »

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Production Co:

Fleischer Studios See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

One of a number of Popeye shorts which were sent off to Asia in the 80's to undergo the infamous redraw and colorization process. See more »

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Popeye: Half price for children as well as people alike.
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Also available in a computer colorized version. See more »

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References Let's Get Movin' (1936) See more »

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Hack Job Popeye
7 February 2017 | by Michael_Elliott – See all my reviews

Customers Wanted (1939)

** (out of 4)

This Popeye short is fairly lazy as it features footage from LET'S GET MOVING and THE TWISKER PITCHER. Basically the "story" here is that Popeye and Bluto are working rival movie houses at a carnival. Soon the two of them are fighting over Wimpy and whose movies he will be watching.

Of course, the movies that he watches are the two titles that I mentioned so basically you've got a short that shows several clips from those two movies with a few scenes worth of new material. The two shorts are very good on their own but just watching the clips here is rather pointless and on the whole this isn't a very good short. It certainly doesn't help that the new footage doesn't contain any laughs.
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