Behave Yourself!
One of the
greatest comedies ever made, now in the public domain (so it appears) like the
Welsh terrier that figures in it.
A Wilshire
Boulevard comedy, a Sunset Boulevard comedy, a San Pedro comedy.
The style can be
seen as situated between Andrew L. Stone’s Hi Diddle Diddle and Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc?, the substance is a matter of counterfeit
money for stuff that is probably dope, with a Kafka key picked up by Welles for
The Trial.
The Miracle Mile
(further seen in Albert S. Rogell’s The
Admiral Was a Lady), the Strip (Frank Cannon’s residence, later The
St. James’s Club), the Seamens Hotel.
Well ahead of its
time, even for later reviewers.