Popeye meets spaghetti western in this unhinged Italian fever dream you've definitely never heard of.
Fists of Dollars & Spinach is a 1978 film directed by Emimmo Salvi. It is the first flesh-and-blood film about the adventures of Popeye, anticipating the Disney film Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman by two years
Production
Beat Disney to Popeye by two years through sheer Italian audacity.
Costume
Maurizio Arena's pipe and muscles in a western saloon.
Director
Emimmo Salvi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Emimmo Salvi's final film after a career of peplum and spy knockoffs. He went out swinging.
The 'flesh-and-blood Popeye' race between Italian quickies and Hollywood prestige briefly made the sailor man cinema's weirdest intellectual property battleground.
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