Robert Benchley Movies

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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....

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

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

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

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...

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...

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.