Der Kandidat

"The Candid Candidate" is one of the best Betty Boop cartoons I have seen. It's very clever, quite original and fun. The film begins with Betty Boop singing a ditty in which he admonishes everyone to get out and vote for Grampy for mayor. He narrowly wins and is excited to get on the job. However, all sorts of nuts literally come crawling out of no where--demanding he fix something or another or ELSE! Well, Grampy is a great inventor and after using his thinking cap, he sets out to make the city wonderful. Here is where the film is at its best--with lots of totally nutty and clever inventions to make his people love him. If only we had REAL candidates like this--we'd sure vote for 'em! Overall, a very nice combination of terrific Fleischer Brothers animation and cleverness that you can't help but enjoy. Terrific when compared to the other rather saccharine cartoons of the day.