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Released
1980 · FILM

Popeye

Popeye, a spinach-fueled sailor, sets out to claim the heart of Olive Oyl while battling the brutish suitor Bluto for control of Sweethaven’s future.

“Haves a happy holiday with me an' Olive!”

Directed by
Robert Altman
Written by
Jules Feiffer, E C Segar
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
114 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Tubi

Synopsis

Popeye is a super-strong sailor man who consumes spinach to gain his strength and is on a quest to find his father. After a storm destroys his ship, Popeye washes ashore and takes up residence at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win Olive's affection, he must first face her fiancé, Bluto.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John W HolmesShot by Giuseppe RotunnoDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

1980 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$49.8M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$49.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.3M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 901 theaters

Also known as

  • Popeye - Der Seemann mit dem harten Schlagde
  • Popeye - Braccio di ferroit

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