Behave Yourself! (1951)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

George Beck

Writers:

George Beck (screenplay)
George Beck (story)

Release Date:

September 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

OH! The things that go ON ... and ON ... and ON!

Plot:

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Mother In Law | Cage | Lingerie | Rain

Cast

Farley Granger	...	William Calhoun 'Bill' Denny
Shelley Winters	...	Kate Denny
William Demarest	...	Officer O'Ryan
Francis L. Sullivan	...	Fat Freddy
Margalo Gillmore	...	Mother
Lon Chaney Jr.	...	Pinky (as Lon Chaney)
Hans Conried	...	Gillie the Blade
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Albert Jonas
Glenn Anders	...	Pete the Pusher
Allen Jenkins	...	Plainclothesman
Sheldon Leonard	...	Shortwave Bert
Marvin Kaplan	...	Max the Umbrella
Archie	...	Himself
Henry Corden	...	Numi

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:PG | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (2003)

Company:

Wald/Krasna Productions

Trivia:

Classic pin-up artist, Vargas, painted the film's original poster.

Goofs:

Plot holes: Plot hinges on a small trained dog who is shipped to Los Angeles by crooks, with message that if dog is walked on Wilshire Boulevard, he will lead crooks to their criminal contact. However, Wilshire is one of city's longest streets (16 miles) and instructions don't indicate either what area of this street dog is to be walked or even which side, meaning the dog would conceivably have to be walked 32 miles.

Soundtrack:

Behave Yourself!

The dog has it.

A little dog turns out to be the most interesting feature of this film. This dog is the only lead for the "gangland buyers of the counterfeit money" to find the counterfeiters on Wilshire Blvd. Archie "the dog" has other plans and adopts Farley Granger and Shelley Winters as his family. Now the scramble by the gangsters to find the dog intensifies. Murder seems to follow this "pooch" and brings Granger to the center of all the mayhem. An amusing dog tale which ends answering the question "what if man bites dog."