Behave Yourself!

Beyond living in his disapproving mother-in-law's house while he establishes his accounting career, Bill Denny is happily married to Kate Denny, the two who are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. Bill thinks he's come home without a present for Kate since a stray Welsh terrier caused a ruckus in the store where he was going to buy the present. However Kate believes her anniversary present is the terrier who followed Bill home and who Kate eventually names Archie. What neither Bill or Kate is aware of is that the terrier escaped from its owners, a bunch a smugglers who trained the terrier to be the contact for the switch between the smuggled goods and the money. Bill does whatever he can to get rid of the terrier as he and Archie don't get along. Meanwhile, the people buying the smuggled goods believe the smugglers have swindled them since the terrier has not made contact. So when ads appear in the lost and found section about a missing Welsh terrier, Bill, in trying to return Archie to his rightful owners, unwittingly gets caught in the middle. And Kate can't quite understand why Archie is always trying to go off on their walks, he doing what he was trained to do in trying to make contact for the drop. Add a harried police detective investigating a series a murders in which Bill ms to be involved, and chaos ensues. Written by Huggo Behave Yourself! is a 1951 American English-language Comedy Crime film starring Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan, Margalo Gillmore, Lon Chaney Jr. and Allen Wood. Wald/Krasna Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Norman Krasna, Stanley Rubin and Jerry Wald. Behave Yourself! is written by George Beck and Frank Tarloff and it is directed by George Beck. RKO Radio Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Behave Yourself! was released on 31st August 1951 and takes a screen time of 81 minutes. The movie made a box office gross of $1 million. Cinematography was done by James Wong Howe and editing by Paul Weatherwax. The music was composed by Leigh Harline.