Robert Benchley Movies

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

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes...

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...

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able...

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

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.

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

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...

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

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

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

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

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

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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