Robert Benchley Movies

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.

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

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

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

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

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

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

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...

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.

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

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

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

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...

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.