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 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.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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

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 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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

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

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...

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

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

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

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...