Hey! That story sounds familiar!
August 1st, 2008 at 10:09am Will Pfeifer
Two candidates are running for president, only to discover that the entire election will be decided by a single vote. The plot for Kevin Costner’s new movie, SWING VOTE, which opens today? Nope. The plot for POPEYE FOR PRESIDENT, a 1956 cartoon where Popeye and Bluto are the candidates, and Olive Oyl is that lone voter. A commenter over at Hollywood Elsewhere pointed out the plot similarity. Here’s the cartoon itself as proof:
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Another reader comments that virtually the same plot was also used in the 1939 John Barrymore movie THE GREAT MAN VOTES.
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1. Jerry | August 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Fairly off topic but still interesting, one of my favorite old classic cartoons was Knighty Knight Bugs. I always thought all of the Warner Bros. cartoons were the funniest and best, even as a kid.
I found out years later that “Knighty Knight Bugs” won an Oscar for best animated short and that the Oscar went to a Rockford, IL born producer named John W. Burton.
Will, do you know if that is the only Oscar won by a Rockford (or Rockford area) actor, filmmaker, etc.?
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