Robert Benchley Movies

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

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

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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....

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

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

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.

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...

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...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

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...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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

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

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

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...