Never Sock a Baby
Never Sock a Baby
| 03 November 1939 (USA)
Never Sock a Baby Trailers

Popeye spanks Swee'pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'pea packs a bundle and runs away from home. They apparently live in the wilderness, since Swee'pea crosses a rope bridge that collapses, narrowly misses a landslide, and is soon on a narrow mountain path. Popeye finds him and rescues him from a waterfall but his spinach can is empty. Fortunately, this was all a bad dream from Popeye's conscience.

Reviews
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Michael_Elliott Never Sock a Baby (1939) *** (out of 4)Popeye has to spank Swee'pea and before long it starts to bother him. His good conscience tells him he was in the wrong but his bad conscience says that he doesn't want the kid to turn into a sissy. Things take a dramatic turn when the kid runs away from the house.For the most part NEVER SOCK A BABY is a pretty entertaining Popeye short that has plenty of nice action once the ending comes. The final moments of the film are certainly the highlight and especially with the little speech Popeye gives at the very end. The animation is as great as always and the story itself is rather funny and there are some good laughs throughout.
ccthemovieman-1 "Never Spank A Baby" should have been the title, because that was message. It wasn't hidden, either, as Popeye says those exact words at the end of the cartoon. Earlier, an "angel" tells him a similar thing while the "devil" tells him the opposite. The Fleischer brothers weren't too subtle about this message. Maybe they got spanked a lot as kids. Whatever, it's pretty heavy-handed.The story, too, turns out to be one of these "it was all a dream" stories ruining the suspenseful ending. This had the unique twist of Popeye ready to pop in a mouthful of spinach at the last minute....only to have an empty can! Now, that's clever, and I was wondering what he was going to do next when - poof! - it was just a dream. Bummer.Along the way, we see Swee' Pea in a number of adventures as he crawls out of the window to leave home after being spanked. This could have been a memorable cartoon if they didn't wimp out at the end and were a little more subtle in their message.