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A Balmy Swami is Popeye's 164th theatrical cartoon, produced by Famous Studios and released on July 22, 1949
Plot[]
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but the animal act is followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediately makes plans: first, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks; next, he hypnotizes Olive, but, while she is walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the two men race to save her. Popeye's efforts are hampered by Bluto's magic, like the instant brick wall he builds. Bluto awakens her, and she attacks him then panics. Popeye throws her a hook to save her; it does, but it crashes through a window, bringing a piano out with it. The piano crashes on the building, and Olive is catapulted by the strings to a distant platform. Another race to save her follows. As Popeye is trapped in a plummeting elevator, he breaks out his spinach, allowing him to triumph. In the end, Bluto is given to the seal as a plaything.
Trivia[]
- After the short was edited for a.a.p., the original ending was lost, so in Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s Volume 3 the ending cue from Abusement Park was substituted.
External links[]
- A Balmy Swami at the Internet Movie Database