Robert Benchley Movies

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

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...

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

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

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

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....

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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

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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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...

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

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...

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.

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

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

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