Robert Benchley Movies

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.