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  • Better Behave (1928)
  • Not Rated
    Short | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Better Behave (1928)
Not Rated
Short | 20 min | Short, Comedy
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) ...See morePhysical 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. - Dennis Harvey See less
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Director
Leslie Goodwins
Composer
David Drazin
Cinematographer
Harry Forbes
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Updated Dec 31, 1928
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1928 (United States)

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8 cast members
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Poodles Hanneford
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Betty Walsh
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Harry Martell
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Tom Dempsey
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The Bush Leaguer (1927)
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Julia Griffith
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Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
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William McCall
Man Reading Paper (uncredited) Man Reading Paper (uncredited)   See fewer
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