Robert Benchley Movies

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 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...

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.

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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