Thomas Johnson Movie Trailers

Popeye for President Trailer (1956)

06 April 1956

Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter.

Riot in Rhythm Trailer (1950)

10 November 1950

Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers, finishing by blessing "all the nice people that come to see their pictures.

By Leaps and Hounds Trailer (1951)

20 December 1951

Herbert, a hound who has never seen a fox, joins the Foxhound Academy to get his foxhound credentials.

Popalong Popeye Trailer (1952)

29 August 1952

Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.

Hill-billing and Cooing Trailer (1956)

13 January 1956

Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye.

Car-azy Drivers Trailer (1955)

22 July 1955

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.

Zero the Hound Trailer (1941)

30 May 1941

A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.

Possum Pearl Trailer (1957)

20 September 1957

In the hill country, Possum Pearl, a hillbilly woman who's a Kate Smith lookalike, is on the man prowl again.