Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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

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

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

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...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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...