Robert Benchley Movies

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

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....

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.

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...

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

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

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.

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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...