Gopher Spinach

Name: Gopher Spinach
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Short
Released: 1954-12-10
Duration: 6 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Jack Mercer

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

265

YOUR RATING

Animation Comedy Family Short

Popeye battles a gopher over his precious spinach plants.Popeye battles a gopher over his precious spinach plants.Popeye battles a gopher over his precious spinach plants.

Directors
- Seymour Kneitel
- Thomas Johnson
Writer
- Carl Meyer
Star
- Jack Mercer

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

265

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Seymour Kneitel
- Thomas Johnson
Writer
- Carl Meyer
Star
- Jack Mercer

9User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

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Jack Mercer

Popeye
(voice)
(uncredited)

Directors
- Seymour Kneitel
- Thomas Johnson
Writer
- Carl Meyer
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Gopher Spinach (1954)

*** (out of 4)

Popeye is out planting baby spinach's in his garden when suddenly they begin to disappear. It doesn't take long for him to realize that a gopher is stealing them.

Fans of Popeye should enjoy this short, which has a fairly good story but also plenty of action to go along with the laughs. Obviously Bluto will always be the greatest villain but the gopher here managed to make for a lot of fun and especially during a prank involving a lawn mower. As you'd expect the animation itself is quite impressive and with such a short running time there's no downtime in regards to entertainment.

Trivia
To make the film's title safe for emerging widescreen theatres, the Paramount mountain was completely redrawn for this cartoon. Along with other Famous Studios cartoons after Herman and Katnip's Rail-Rodents, the new logo remains permanent for all remaining shorts to the end of the series.