Robert Benchley Movies

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

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 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...

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...

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

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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

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

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...

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....

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

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

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

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

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...

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

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.