Popeye

Popeye1980

Stars: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Rating: PG
Runtime: 114 minutes

Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a b… more »



The Tax Man:
You just docked?

Popeye:
I has.

The Tax Man:
Ah ha, let's see here, that'll be 25¢ docking tax.

Popeye:
What for?

The Tax Man:
Where's your sea craft?

Popeye:
It ain't no sea craft, it's me dinghy and it's under the wharf.

The Tax Man:
Ah ha. ahh-ha. This your goods?

Popeye:
They is.

The Tax Man:
Yeah. You're new in town right?

Popeye:
If you call this a town, yes.

The Tax Man:
Well, first of all, there's 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there's 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.

Popeye:
Uh, who's this Commodore?

The Tax Man:
Is that the nature of question? There's a nickel question tax.

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