Robert Benchley Movies

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer proceeds to call...

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

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

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. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.

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

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he...

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

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.

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

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

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

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

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 and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butter. Finally, he decides to install a small...

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