The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
*** (out of 4)
The title character is someone everyone is afraid of. Of course, Betty Boop isn't afraid of him so she decides to climb up the mountain to confront the old man. Story wise there's certainly nothing great or even good with this short but it's another one of the Paramount films where the animators brought in a musician to really jazz things up. Cab Calloway is on hand here and provides the music score, which is excellent and a lot of the action in the film is played against the music. The music alone is reason enough to watch this short as Calloway was one of the greatest from this period and there's no question that the fast score really adds a lot of fun to the action. Betty is her typical cute self and for the most part this is an entertaining entry in the series.