Harold Walker

En 1943, la Armada de los Estados Unidos ha establecido numerosas bases en las islas Salomón, con el objetivo de prepararse para una posible invasión en las costas de Nueva Guinea. En una de las islas vive un jardinero francés llamado Emile de Becque, a quien la Armada busca para contratar como "elemento de reconocimiento" y obtener información de las tropas japonesas invasoras. Antes de completar su misión, Becque se encuentra con la enfermera Nellie Forbush de la Armada. En medio de un musical, la trama restante se devela. South Pacific es una adaptación cinematográfica de 1958 del musical South Pacific, basado en la novela Tales of the South Pacific, de James A. Michener.

A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath. He manages to spoil a balance trick, then tops it with Wimpy in a chair. Olive then volunteers to be levitated; Bluto pulls her over and saws her in half. Olive escapes to a roller coaster with the boys in pursuit.

Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.

The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow.

To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).