The Emperor's New Clothes (1953) User Reviews

What was that last line??!

[scrabbler · 8/10 · 3 January 2021]

This is a delightful and droll short from UPA. The adaptation is great, the jokes are funny, the animation amazing (as with all UPA films). How I wish they'd been more commercially successful.

But the last line, the punch line of the whole film, is unintelligible! What did he SAY??!!

Excellent adaptation of the fairy tale with the vocal talent of the great Hans Conreid

[llltdesq · 9/10 · 9 September 2002]

This is a wonderful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, done with typical attention to detail by the UPA studio and featuring the voice of Hans Conreid. Given his rich and distinctive voice, it is hardly surprising that Conreid did quite a bit of voice work in animation, both narration and character acting. While never identified as the primary vocal talent for a studio, Conreid did work for most of them, particularly Lantz and Disney. He's perfect here, appropriately gullible and smarmy by turns. Well worth the effort to track down. Recommended.