Robert Benchley Movies

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

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

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

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.

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

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...

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

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

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

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...