Seymour Kneitel — Producer (23)

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Hot Air Aces (1949) IMDb TMDB
Hot Air Aces
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Jackson Beck / Jack Mercer …
other title: Coup de chaleur
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightning bolt, passes him. Bluto catches up again, and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately, there's a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's plane.

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The Wee Men (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Wee Men
director: Bill Tytla actor: Jackson Beck
other title: Los gnomos
The story of Leprechauns who make shoes for the poor. When the youngest reaches manhood, he insists on making the delivery. However, a local crook makes plans to catch him so he'll lead him to their crock of gold.

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Car-azy Drivers (1955) IMDb TMDB
Car-azy Drivers
director: Seymour Kneitel
other title: Popeye et les chauffards
Popeye arrives in a suit of armor to take Olive for her first driving lesson. Between her literal-mindedness ("choke the engine"), inexperience, an inattentiveness, she has several accidents, culminating in a showdown with a locomotive.

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Candy Cabaret (1954) IMDb TMDB
Candy Cabaret
Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along.

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Toys Will Be Toys (1949) IMDb TMDB
Toys Will Be Toys
director: Seymour Kneitel
Toys in a toy store come to life at night, and perform in a toy parade before the Doll Princess, all of which leads to the "Screen Song" sing-a-long, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".

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Leprechauns Gold (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Leprechauns Gold
director: Bill Tytla actor: Jackson Beck
other title: Das Gold der Kobolde / Leprechaun's Gold …
A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend.

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Popeye's Premiere (1949) IMDb TMDB
Popeye's Premiere
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: La première de Popeye
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.

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Butterscotch and Soda (1948) IMDb TMDB
Butterscotch and Soda
director: Seymour Kneitel
The housekeeper does her best to get nourishing food into Little Audrey, but the only thing Audrey wants is candy. And she wants lots of it. The housekeeper banishes Audrey to her room, but the cunning girl has sweets hidden in bags that hang outside her bedroom window. The angry servant finds every last piece of candy in the room and takes it away. Soon, Audrey has candy withdrawal and even gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. A nightmare sends her to a Candy Horror Land where evil candy canes and sinister licorice drops force-feed her all the candy she doesn't want.

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Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Jackson Beck / Jack Mercer …
other title: Popeye und das Jubiläum / Le 20ème anniversaire de Popeye
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').

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Klondike Casanova (1946) IMDb TMDB
Klondike Casanova
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Harry Welch / Mae Questel …
other title: Casanova / 卡萨诺瓦
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive.

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Parlez Vous Woo (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Parlez Vous Woo
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Popeye der Charmeur / Parlez-moi d'Amour
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character.

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A Haul in One (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Haul in One
director: Izzy Sparber actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Popeye als Möbelpacker / Le déménagement d'Olive
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, then into a table; though he hardly seems to need it, Popeye still eats his spinach, then thrashes Bluto.