Robert Benchley Movies

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...

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

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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.