Robert Benchley Movies

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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...

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

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

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

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

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...

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...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

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

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

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...