Oh, Professor Behave! (1946) User Reviews

Enjoyable but awfully familiar.

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 3 September 2020]

Many of Leon Errol's shorts for RKO fall into a very familiar pattern. Leon has a very jealous wife....and she is a bit of a harpy. But Leon IS a bad husband and usually is chasing other women! Here, the same old formula is here again...but in this case, Leon IS trying to be a good husband...at least for a while.

When the story begins, Mrs. Errol (Dorothy Granger) is on a vacation alone. However, she decides to return home early when she gets word her no-good husband is carousing. Sure enough, he's having a party and the wife stomps off...vowing to divorce him. Shortly after this, Leon is in the shower when guest arrives. It seems that Professor James was referred to him because she needed a place to stay. The butler tells Leon this...but not that the professor is a sexy lady. He says to let her in and give her a room...and the butler complies.

Soon the wife arrives back home. She's changes her mind about the divorce and Leon promises to be good. But soon he learns that the visitor is NOT a man and he and the butler run about the place trying to hide the lady from the very suspicious wife. Will they succeed in keeping the visitor from the wife?

This is a very, very typical short film...enjoyable but offering little in the way of originality for the series. Worth seeing but awfully familiar.

By the way, if the dog, Daisy, looks familiar that's because it's the same dog from the long-running Blondie and Dagwood series.

His lack of honesty always gets him into trouble.

[mark.waltz · 5/10 · 27 November 2020]

It seems that when Leon Errol's two reeler character is involved in some sort of domestic crisis, he gets into trouble over his attempts to hide the truth. Of course having a much younger wife (Dorothy Granger) with jealousy issues is a motive to hide it, and in this case, it's the presence of sexy female professor Amelita Ward that sets up the crisis. Errol agrees to take in the professor as a houseguest, unaware that she's a she.

A very funny sequence in the Errols shower sets it all up as does the butler's attempts to get rid of her, ultimately resulting in a lot of slamming doors and crumpled beds. This is very funny in its efforts to emulate a Max Sennett routine (a rare one indoors), and the cast goes through their paces with frantic abandon. While it creates a lot of laugh induced smiles, it has a ton of ridiculous moments as well, like something out of a dated vaudeville routine.

Leon Caught Unawares

[boblipton · 6/10 · 8 January 2018]

When she discovers Leon Errol has been throwing parties with young women in her absence, wife Dorothy Granger walks out. Meanwhile, Leon is asked to put up a friend of a friend, a professor, unaware that it's a pretty young girl. When Dorothy returns and Leon discovers who his guest is, he tries to hide her and hire a substitute off the street, all to the usual chaotic results in a Leon Errol short.

For some reason, Daisy, the dog actor from the BLONDIE series over at Columbia makes a guest appearance in this episode of Errol's long-running series of RKO shorts. I'm not sure why, but the pooch does its usual competent and amusing tricks.