Better Behave

Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.

Poodles Hanneford

Freddie

Betty Walsh

Betty

Harry Martell

Plain Clothes Al

Roger Moore

Officer McNutt

• Leslie GoodwinsDirector

Release date

October 5, 1928

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Genres

Comedy